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.
C. L. R. James

Born: January 4, 1901
Died: May 19, 1989 (aged 88)
Bio: Cyril Lionel Robert James, best known as C. L. R. James, who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist.
Known for:
- The Black Jacobins (1938)
- Beyond a Boundary (1963)
- Minty Alley (1936)
- State Capitalism and World Revolution (1969)