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 Yergin
Born: February 6, 1947 (age 78)
Bio: Daniel Howard Yergin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of the Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an energy research consultancy that is now part of IHS Inc.
Known for:
- The Commanding Heights (1998)
- Russia 2010 (1993)
- Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War (1977)