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.
Ferdowsi

Born: 940
Died: 1020 (aged 80)
Bio: Abu ʾl-Qasim Ferdowsi Tusi, or Ferdowsi, was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh, which is the world's longest epic poem created by a single poet, and the national epic of Iran and the Greater Iran.
Known for:
- The epic of kings
- The legend of Seyavash
- Das Königsbuch
- Şerîfî Şehnâme çevirisi