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.
E. E. Smith

Born: May 2, 1890
Died: August 31, 1965 (aged 75)
Bio: Edward Elmer Smith was an American food engineer and an early science fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. He is sometimes called the father of space opera.