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.
Alistair Horne

Born: November 9, 1925
Died: May 25, 2017 (aged 91)
Bio: Sir Alistair Allan Horne was a British journalist, biographer and historian of Europe, especially of 19th and 20th century France. He has written more than 20 books on travel, history, and biography.
Known for:
- A Savage War of Peace (1977)
- The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 (1962)
- Seven Ages of Paris (2002)
- To Lose a Battle (1969)