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 H. Billington
Born: June 1, 1929
Died: November 20, 2018 (aged 89)
Bio: James Hadley Billington, the Librarian of Congress Emeritus, was a leading American academic and author who taught history at Harvard and Princeton before serving for 42 years as CEO of four federal cultural institutions.
Known for:
- Fire in the Minds of Men (1980)
- The Icon and the Axe (1966)
- Russia in Search of Itself (2004)