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.
Alexander Nehamas
Born: March 22, 1946 (age 79)
Bio: Alexander Nehamas is Professor of Philosophy and Edmund N. Carpenter, II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1990, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Known for:
- On Friendship (2016)
- Nietzsche, life as literature (1985)
- The art of living (1998)
- Virtues of authenticity (1999)