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.
Gerardus 't Hooft
Born: July 5, 1946 (age 78)
Bio: Gerardus 't Hooft is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G.
Known for:
- Playing with planets (2008)
- In Search of the Ultimate Building Blocks (1996)
- Introduction to General Relativity (2001)