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 Howitt
Born: December 18, 1792
Died: March 3, 1879 (aged 86)
Bio: William Howitt was a prolific English writer on history and other subjects.
Known for:
- The Rural Life of England (1838)
- Colonization and Christianity (1838)