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.
Herbert Agar

Born: September 29, 1897
Died: November 24, 1980 (aged 83)
Bio: Herbert Sebastian Agar was an American journalist and historian, and an editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1934 for his 1933 book The People's Choice, a critical look at the American presidency.
Known for:
- The Price of Power: America Since 1945 (1957)
- Time and Tide
- Saving remnant (1960)
- The perils of democracy (1965)