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.
Jesse Ball
Born: June 7, 1978 (age 46)
Bio: Jesse Ball is an American poet and novelist. He has published novels, volumes of poetry, short prose, and drawings. His works are distinguished by the use of a spare style and have been compared to those of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino.
Known for:
- A Cure for Suicide (2015)
- How to Set a Fire and Why (2016)
- Silence Once Begun (2014)
- The Way Through Doors (2009)
- Samedi the Deafness (2007)