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.
Joan Smith
Born: August 27, 1953 (age 71)
Bio: Joan Alison Smith is an English journalist, novelist, and human rights activist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN and was the Executive Director Hacked Off.
Known for:
- Misogynies (1989)
- A Masculine Ending (1987)
- Clouds of Deceit (1985)
- Why aren't they screaming? (1988)
- The Folk Doll of Sion (1973)