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.
Hélène Cixous
Born: June 5, 1937 (age 87)
Bio: Hélène Cixous is a professor, Algerian/French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician.
Known for:
- The book of Promethea (1991)
- The Newly Born Woman (Theory & History of Literature (1986)
- Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (1993)
- Coming to writing and other essays (1991)
- The Third Body (1999)