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.
Elaine Pagels

Born: February 13, 1943 (age 82)
Bio: Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey, is an American religious historian, best known for her writing on the Gnostic Gospels. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University.
Known for:
- The Gnostic Gospels (1979)
- Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (2003)
- The origin of Satan (1995)
- Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (1988)