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.
Diane Coyle
Born: February 12, 1961 (age 64)
Bio: Diane Coyle, OBE, is an economist and a former advisor to the UK Treasury. She was Vice-Chairman of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and was a member of the UK Competition Commission until its termination in April 2014.
Known for:
- The Soulful Science (2007)
- GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History (2014)
- Sex, Drugs and Economics (2002)
- The Weightless World (1997)