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.
Steven Shapin
Born: 1943 (age 82)
Bio: Steven Shapin is a historian and sociologist of science. He is the Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.
Known for:
- Leviathan and the Air-Pump (1985)
- The Scientific Revolution (1996)
- A social history of truth (1994)
- The scientific life (2008)