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 Hutchinson
Born: September 9, 1711
Died: June 3, 1780 (aged 68)
Bio: Thomas Hutchinson was a businessman, historian, and a prominent Loyalist politician of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years before the American Revolution. He has been referred to as "the most important figure on the loyalist side in pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts.
Known for:
- The Witch-Craft Delusion of 1692
- FRANKLIN BEFORE THE PRIVY COUN