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 Benjamin Carpenter
Born: October 29, 1813
Died: November 19, 1885 (aged 72)
Bio: William Benjamin Carpenter CB FRS was an English physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist. He was instrumental in the early stages of the unified University of London.
Known for:
- The microscope and its revelations (1856)
- Animal Physiology (1843)