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.
Stamford Raffles
Born: July 6, 1781
Died: July 5, 1826 (aged 44)
Bio: Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles was a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java and Governor-General of Bencoolen, best known for his founding of Singapore.
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