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.
Victor Duruy

Born: September 11, 1811
Died: November 25, 1894 (aged 83)
Bio: Jean Victor Duruy was a French historian and statesman.
Known for:
- The History of the Middle Ages (1891)
- A General History of the World
- A History of France (1889)