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.
Vernon Lee

Born: October 14, 1856
Died: February 13, 1935 (aged 78)
Bio: Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget. She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics.
Known for:
- Hauntings (1890)
- A Phantom Lover (1886)
- Miss Brown (1884)
- Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy (1880)