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.
Ithiel de Sola Pool
Born: October 26, 1917
Died: 1984 (aged 66)
Bio: Ithiel de Sola Pool was a revolutionary figure in the field of social sciences. Pool led groundbreaking research on technology and its effects on society.
Known for:
- Technologies of Freedom (1983)
- Forecasting the Telephone (1983)
- Politics in wired nations
- Symbols of democracy (1952)