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 T. Stearn
Born: April 16, 1911
Died: May 9, 2001 (aged 90)
Bio: Professor William Thomas Stearn, VMH was a British botanist. Born in Cambridge in 1911, he was largely self-educated, and developed an early interest in books and natural history.
Known for:
- Botanical Latin (1966)
- Flower artists of Kew (1990)