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.
Alec Wilkinson

Born: 1952 (age 73)
Bio: Alec Wilkinson is a writer who has been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1980. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer he is among the "first rank of" contemporary American "literary journalists... of Naipaul, Norman Mailer and Agee.
Known for:
- The Ice Balloon (2011)
- Midnights, a year with the Wellfleet police (1982)
- Moonshine: A Life in Pursuit of White Liquor (1985)