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 Thomas Beckford
Born: October 1, 1760
Died: May 2, 1844 (aged 83)
Bio: William Thomas Beckford was an English novelist, travel writer, art-collector and eccentric. His best-known work is the oriental romance Vathek; it was written in French, reputedly in the space of three days and two nights.
Known for:
- Vathek (1786)
- Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents (1783)
- The Episodes of Vathek
- Modern novel writing (1796)
- The consummate collector