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.
Umberto Saba
Born: March 9, 1883
Died: August 26, 1957 (aged 74)
Bio: Umberto Saba was an Italian poet and novelist, born Umberto Poli in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean port of Trieste when it was the fourth largest city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Known for:
- Il canzoniere (1921)
- Ernesto
- Songbook
- History and chronicle of the Songbook
- Scorciatoie e raccontini (1946)