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.
Claude Elwood Shannon

Born: April 30, 1916
Died: February 24, 2001 (aged 84)
Bio: Claude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".