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.
Howard Mansfield

Born: June 14, 1957 (age 67)
Bio: Howard Mansfield is an American author who writes about history, preservation, and architecture. He was born in Huntington, New York, and graduated from Syracuse University in 1979. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife, writer Sy Montgomery
Known for:
- In the Memory House (1993)
- The same ax, twice (2000)
- The Bones of the Earth (2004)
- Turn and Jump: How Time & Place Fell Apart (2010)