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.
Carl Van Vechten
Born: June 17, 1880
Died: December 21, 1964 (aged 84)
Bio: Carl Van Vechten was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.
Known for:
- Nigger Heaven (1926)
- The Blind Bow Boy (1923)
- The tiger in the house (1920)
- Peter Whiffle (1922)
- Parties