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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.
Allen Toussaint
Born: January 14, 1938
Died: November 10, 2015 (aged 77)
Bio: Allen Toussaint was an American musician, songwriter, arranger and record producer, who was an influential figure in New Orleans R&B from the 1950s to the end of the century, described as "one of popular music’s great backroom figures.
Known for:
- American Tunes
- The Bright Mississippi (2009)
- Southern Nights (1975)
- Life, Love and Faith (1972)
- The River in Reverse (2006)