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.
Edmund Leach

Born: November 7, 1910
Died: January 6, 1989 (aged 78)
Bio: Sir Edmund Ronald Leach was a British social anthropologist.
Known for:
- Political Systems of Higland Burma (1954)
- The essential Edmund Leach
- Rethinking Anthropology (1961)
- Culture & communication (1976)
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (1970)