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.
A. E. van Vogt
Born: April 26, 1912
Died: January 26, 2000 (aged 87)
Bio: Alfred Elton van Vogt was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular, influential, and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the Golden Age of the genre.
Known for:
- The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950)
- The World of Null-A (1945)
- The Weapon Shops of Isher (1951)
- The Weapon Makers (1947)