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.
John Freely

Born: 1926
Died: April 20, 2017 (aged 91)
Bio: John Freely was an American physicist, teacher, and author of popular travel and history books on Istanbul, Athens, Venice, Turkey, Greece, and the Ottoman Empire. He was the father of writer and Turkish-to-English literary translator Maureen Freely.
Known for:
- The Grand Turk (2009)