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.
Theodore Hook

Born: September 22, 1788
Died: August 24, 1841 (aged 52)
Bio: Theodore Edward Hook was an English man of letters and composer and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in 1810.
Known for:
- Jack Brag (1837)
- Gilbert Gurney (1836)
- SAYINGS & DOINGS
- Gurney married (1839)