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 Winthrop
Born: September 22, 1828
Died: June 10, 1861 (aged 32)
Bio: Theodore Winthrop was a writer, lawyer, and world traveller. He was one of the first Union officers killed in the American Civil War.
Known for:
- Cecil Dreeme (1861)
- The Canoe and the Saddle
- Life in the open air
- Edwin Brothertoft
- John Brent (1861)