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.
Clive Ponting

Born: April 13, 1946
Died: July 28, 2020 (aged 74)
Bio: Clive Sheridan Ponting was a senior civil servant, best known for leaking documents about the sinking of the Belgrano in the Falklands War. He was the author of a number of revisionist books on British and world history.
Known for:
- A New Green History of the World (1991)
- World History - A New Perspective (2000)
- 1940: Myth and Reality (1990)
- The Crimean War (2004)
- The twentieth century (1998)