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.
Gerda Lerner
Born: April 30, 1920
Died: January 2, 2013 (aged 92)
Bio: Gerda Hedwig Lerner was an Austrian-born American historian and author. In addition to her numerous scholarly publications, she wrote poetry, fiction, theater pieces, screenplays, and an autobiography. She served as president of the Organization of American Historians in 1980-81.
Known for:
- Why history matters (1997)
- Fireweed (2002)
- Black Women in White America (1972)
- The majority finds its past (1979)
- The Grimké sisters from South Carolina (1967)