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.
Gilbert Herdt

Born: February 24, 1949 (age 76)
Bio: Gilbert H. Herdt is Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Anthropology and a Founder of the Department of Sexuality Studies and National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University.
Known for:
- The Sambia : ritual and gender in New Guinea (1987)
- Guardians of the flutes (1981)
- Sambia sexual culture (1999)
- Human Sexuality: Self, Society and Culture (2013)