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.
Gay Talese
Born: February 7, 1932 (age 93)
Bio: Gay Talese is an American author. As a writer for The New York Times and Esquire magazine in the 1960s, Talese helped to define literary journalism. Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra.
Known for:
- The Voyeur's Motel (2016)
- Thy Neighbor's Wife (1981)
- Honor Thy Father (1971)
- Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (2011)
- Unto the Sons (1992)
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