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.
Frederic Morton

Born: October 5, 1924
Died: April 20, 2015 (aged 90)
Bio: Frederic Morton was an Austrian-born American writer. Born Fritz Mandelbaum in Vienna, Morton was the son of a blacksmith who specialized in forging imperial medals. In the wake of the Anschluss of 1938, his father was arrested, but later released.
Known for:
- A nervous splendor (1979)
- The Rothschilds (1962)
- Thunder at Twilight
- The forever street