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 Jones
Born: September 28, 1746
Died: April 27, 1794 (aged 47)
Bio: Sir William Jones was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indian languages, which would later be known as Indo-European languages.
Known for:
- The works of Sir William Jones
- A Grammar of the Persian Language (1771)
- Ojibwa Texts