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.
George Akerlof
Born: June 17, 1940 (age 84)
Bio: George Arthur Akerlof is an American economist and University Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. He won the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Known for:
- An economic theorist's book of tales (1984)