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.
Alan Hollinghurst
Born: May 26, 1954 (age 70)
Bio: Alan James Hollinghurst is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2004 Booker Prize.
Known for:
- The Line of Beauty (2004)
- The Stranger’s Child (2011)
- The Swimming Pool Library (1988)
- The Folding Star (1994)
- The Spell (1998)