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.
Blaise Cendrars
Born: September 1, 1887
Died: January 21, 1961 (aged 73)
Bio: Frédéric-Louis Sauser, better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.
Known for:
- Moravagine: (*) (1926)
- La Main coupée (1946)
- To the end of the world
- Anthologie Negre (1947)