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.
Jean-Pierre Luminet

Born: June 3, 1951 (age 73)
Bio: Jean-Pierre Luminet is a French astrophysicist, writer and poet, specialized in black holes and cosmology. He works as research director for the CNRS, and is a member of the Laboratoire Univers et Théories of the observatory of Paris-Meudon.