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.
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Born: October 21, 1927
Died: December 2, 2008 (aged 81)
Bio: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea was an influential writer and filmmaker who spent much of her life in the field producing numerous ethnographies and films that capture the struggles and turmoil of African and Middle Eastern cultures. Her husband, the anthropologist Robert A.
Known for:
- Street in Marrakech (1975)
- The Arab World (1985)
- Nubian Ethnographies (1991)