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 Carleton

Born: February 20, 1794
Died: January 30, 1869 (aged 74)
Bio: William Carleton was an Irish writer and novelist. He is best known for his Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry a collection of ethnic sketches of the stereotypical Irishman.
Known for:
- Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry (1830)
- The Black Prophet (1846)
- Fardorougha the Miser (1848)
- The works of William Carleton
- The emigrants of Ahadarra (1844)