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.
Hamid Dabashi

Born: June 15, 1951 (age 73)
Bio: Hamid Dabashi is an Iranian-American Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City.
Known for:
- Iran: A People Interrupted (2007)
- Close up (2001)
- Can Non-Europeans Think? (2015)
- The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism (2012)
- Theology of discontent (1993)