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 Thompson Sedgwick
Born: December 29, 1855
Died: January 25, 1921 (aged 65)
Bio: William Thompson Sedgwick was a teacher, epidemiologist, bacteriologist, and a key figure in shaping public health in the United States.
Known for:
- A short history of science
- An Introduction to General Biology (1895)
- General Biology (1886)