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 Sillitoe
Born: March 4, 1928
Died: April 25, 2010 (aged 82)
Bio: Alan Sillitoe was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied.
Known for:
- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959)
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958)
- Life without armour (1995)
- A Start In Life (1970)
- New and Collected Stories (2001)