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 Sokal

Born: January 24, 1955 (age 70)
Bio: Alan David Sokal is a professor of mathematics at University College London and professor of physics at New York University. He works in statistical mechanics and combinatorics.
Known for:
- Fashionable Nonsense (1997)
- Beyond the Hoax (2008)