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 Tate
Born: December 8, 1943
Died: July 8, 2015 (aged 71)
Bio: James Vincent Tate was an American poet whose work earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Known for:
- Dreams of a robot dancing bee (2002)
- A Worshipful Company of Fletchers (1994)
- Return to the city of white donkeys (2004)
- Shroud of the gnome (1997)
- Distance from loved ones (1990)