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.
Deborah Tannen
Born: June 7, 1945 (age 79)
Bio: Deborah Frances Tannen is an American academic and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Known for:
- You Just Don't Understand (1990)
- That's Not What I Meant! (1987)
- Talking from 9 to 5 (1994)
- The argument culture (1998)