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.
Evan S. Connell

Born: August 17, 1924
Died: January 10, 2013 (aged 88)
Bio: Evan Shelby Connell, Jr. was an American novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He also published under the name Evan S. Connell, Jr. His writing covered a variety of genres, although he has published most frequently in fiction.
Known for:
- Mrs. Bridge (1959)
- Son of the Morning Star (1984)
- The Diary of a Rapist (1966)
- Deus Lo Volt! Chronicle of the Crusades (2000)