Quote of the day
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
Bas van Fraassen

Born: April 5, 1941 (age 84)
Bio: Bastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University and the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University, noted for his seminal contributions to philosophy of science.
Known for:
- The scientific image (1980)
- Scientific representation (2008)
- The Empirical Stance (2002)
- Laws and symmetry (1989)
- Quantum mechanics (1991)