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.
Daniel Ellsberg
Born: April 7, 1931
Died: June 16, 2023 (aged 92)
Bio: Daniel Ellsberg was an activist and United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers.
Known for:
- Papers on the war (1972)
- Risk, ambiguity, and decision (1962)
- Doomsday Machine (2017)
Daniel Ellsberg Quotes