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 Robertson Smith
Born: November 8, 1846
Died: March 31, 1894 (aged 47)
Bio: William Robertson Smith was a Scottish orientalist, Old Testament scholar, professor of divinity, and minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He was an editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica and contributor to the Encyclopaedia Biblica.
Known for:
- Religion of the Semites (1889)
- Lectures on the religion of the Semites (1889)
- Kinship & marriage in early Arabia (1885)
- The Old Testament in the Jewish church (1881)
- The prophets of Israel