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.
Allan W. Eckert

Born: January 30, 1931
Died: July 7, 2011 (aged 80)
Bio: Allan Wesley Eckert was an American writer who specialized in historical novels for adults and children, and was also a naturalist. His novel Incident at Hawk's Hill was initially marketed to adults and selected by Reader's Digest Condensed Books.
Known for:
- The Frontiersmen (1967)
- Wilderness Empire: A Narrative (1969)
- Incident at Hawk's Hill (1971)
- The Wilderness War (1978)
- Gateway to Empire (1983)