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.
Compton Mackenzie
Born: January 17, 1883
Died: November 30, 1972 (aged 89)
Bio: Sir Compton Mackenzie was a Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist.
Known for:
- Whisky Galore (1947)
- The Monarch of the Glen (1941)
- Sinister Street (1913)
- The Highland Omnibus
- Vestal Fire (1927)