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 Spottiswoode
Born: January 11, 1825
Died: June 27, 1883 (aged 58)
Bio: William H. Spottiswoode PRS was an English mathematician and physicist. He was President of the Royal Society from 1878 to 1883.