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.
Andrew Delbanco

Born: February 20, 1952 (age 73)
Bio: Andrew H. Delbanco is Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, including College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be, which has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Russian, and Hebrew.
Known for:
- The Death of Satan (1995)
- Melville: His World and Work (2005)
- The Real American Dream (1999)
- The Puritan ordeal (1989)