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.
William Barnes
Born: February 22, 1801
Died: October 7, 1886 (aged 85)
Bio: William Barnes was an English writer, poet, Church of England priest, and philologist. He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset dialect, and much other work, including a comprehensive English grammar quoting from more than 70 different languages.
Known for:
- Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect (1844)
- Poems in the Dorset dialect (1864)
- A philological grammar (1854)
- Poems of William Barnes