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.
Edwin O. Reischauer

Born: October 15, 1910
Died: September 1, 1990 (aged 79)
Bio: Edwin Oldfather Reischauer was an American educator and professor at Harvard University. He was a leading scholar of the history and culture of Japan and East Asia. An article Reischauer wrote in 1960 analyzing current tensions between the U.S.
Known for:
- The Japanese today (1977)
- Japan, tradition & transformation (1978)
- East Asia : the Great Tradition (1960)
- Translations from early Japanese literature (1951)
- The United States and Japan (1950)