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.
Algis Budrys
Born: January 9, 1931
Died: June 9, 2008 (aged 77)
Bio: Algirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names Frank Mason, Alger Rome, John A. Sentry, William Scarff, and Paul Janvier.
Known for:
- Rogue Moon (1960)
- The Falling Torch (1959)
- Some Will Not Die (1961)
- Michaelmas (1977)