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.
Denis Mack Smith

Born: March 3, 1920
Died: July 11, 2017 (aged 97)
Bio: Denis Mack Smith was an English historian, specialising in the history of Italy from the Risorgimento onwards.
Known for:
- Mussolini (1981)
- Modern Italy (1997)
- Cavour and Garibaldi, 1860 (1954)
- Italy and its Monarchy (1989)
- Garibaldi, a great life in brief (1956)