  The agreement of the nuclear equation of state (EoS) deduced from the
GW170817 based tidal deformability with the one obtained from empirical data on
microscopic nuclei is examined. It is found that suitably chosen experimental
data on isoscalar and isovector modes of nuclear excitations together with the
observed maximum neutron star mass constrain the EoS which displays a very good
congruence with the GW170817 inspired one. The giant resonances in nuclei are
found to be instrumental in limiting the tidal deformability parameter and the
radius of neutron star in somewhat narrower bounds. At the 1$\sigma$ level, the
values of the canonical tidal deformability $\Lambda_{1.4}$ and the neutron
star radius $R_{1.4}$ come out to be $267\pm144$ and $11.6\pm1.0$ km,
respectively.
