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.
Guido Beck

Born: August 29, 1903
Died: October 21, 1988 (aged 85)
Bio: Guido Beck was a physicist born in what was then the town of Reichenberg in the Kingdom of Bohemia, and is now Liberec in the Czech Republic. He studied physics in Vienna and received his doctorate in 1925, under Hans Thirring.