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.
Jack Williamson
Born: April 29, 1908
Died: November 10, 2006 (aged 98)
Bio: John Stewart Williamson, who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction" after the death of Robert Heinlein in 1988. Early in his career he sometimes used the pseudonyms Will Stewart and Nils O. Sonderlund.
Known for:
- Darker Than You Think (1948)
- The Legion of Space (1947)
- The Humanoids (1949)
- Star Bridge (1955)
- The Legion of Time (1952)