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.
Thomas Clarkson
Born: March 28, 1760
Died: September 26, 1846 (aged 86)
Bio: Thomas Clarkson was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire.
Known for:
- A portraiture of Quakerism (1806)