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 Francis Patrick Napier

Born: December 7, 1785
Died: February 12, 1860 (aged 74)
Bio: General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier Irish soldier in the British Army and military historian, who tarnished his reputation at the end of his career by a fateful falling out with John Gurwood.
Known for:
- Attila
- The Conquest Of Scinde (1845)