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.
Gennady Yanayev

Born: August 26, 1937
Died: September 24, 2010 (aged 73)
Bio: Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev was a Soviet politician and statesman whose career spanned the rules of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, and culminated during the Gorbachev years. Yanayev was born in Perevoz, Gorky Oblast.