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.
James Geary

Born: 1962 (age 63)
Bio: James Geary is an American-born writer, former Europe editor of Time and deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.
Known for:
- The world in a phrase (2005)
- Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007)
- The Body Electric (2002)