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 Kermode

Born: November 29, 1919
Died: August 17, 2010 (aged 90)
Bio: Sir John Frank Kermode was a British literary critic best known for his work The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, published in 1967, and for his extensive book-reviewing and editing.
Known for:
- Shakespeare's Language (2000)
- The Genesis of Secrecy (1979)
- Romantic Image (1957)
- The Age of Shakespeare (2004)