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.
Derek Tangye

Born: February 29, 1912
Died: October 26, 1996 (aged 84)
Bio: Derek Alan Trevithick Tangye was a British author who lived in Cornwall for nearly fifty years.
Known for:
- The story of the Minack chronicles (1994)
- Jeannie A Love Story (1941)
- A gull on the roof (1961)
- A Cat in the Window (1962)
- Somewhere a Cat Is Waiting (1976)