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.
Amartya Sen
Born: November 3, 1933 (age 91)
Bio: Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher of Bengali ethnicity, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Known for:
- Development as Freedom (1999)
- The Idea of Justice (2009)
- The Argumentative Indian (2005)
- Poverty and famines (1981)
Amartya Sen Quotes