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 N. von Hippel

Born: December 26, 1937 (age 87)
Bio: Frank N.J. von Hippel is an American physicist, born in 1937. He is Professor and Co-Director of Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.