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.
Frank Delaney

Born: October 24, 1942
Died: February 21, 2017 (aged 74)
Bio: Frank Delaney was an Irish novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is the author of The New York Times best-seller Ireland, the non-fiction book Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea, and many other works of fiction, non-fiction and collections.
Known for:
- Ireland, A Novel (2005)
- The Last Storyteller: A Novel of Ireland (2012)
- Simple Courage (2006)
- Tipperary, A Novel (2007)