Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Solomon Northup
Born: July 10, 1807
Died: 1863 (aged 55)
Bio: Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and free woman of color.
Known for:
- Twelve Years a Slave (1853)
- Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story
- 12 Years a Slave Novel Journal