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 Sowerby

Born: August 31, 1799
Died: 1875 (aged 75)
Bio: William Sowerby was an English clergyman who served in Cumberland before moving to New South Wales, Australia. He was the first Anglican clergyman at Goulburn and took a keen interest in the education, health and social welfare of the local population.