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 Carey
Born: August 17, 1761
Died: June 9, 1834 (aged 72)
Bio: William Carey was a British missionary, a Particular Baptist minister, a translator and an activist. He also opened the first University in India offering degrees.
Known for:
- Gay and Christian? Yes!
- Means for the Conversion of the Heathens
- A Dictionary of the Mahratta Language (1810)