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.
Wilbur S. Jackman

Born: 1855
Died: January 28, 1907 (aged 52)
Bio: Wilbur Samuel Jackman was an American educator and one of the originators of the nature study movement. Shortly after he was born in Mechanicstown, Ohio, his family moved to California, Pennsylvania where he spent his boyhood growing up on a farm.
Known for:
- Nature Study for the Common Schools (1891)
- Number Work in Nature Study (1893)