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 Gloag

Born: August 10, 1896
Died: 1981 (aged 84)
Bio: John Gloag was an English writer in the fields of furniture design and architecture. Gloag also wrote science fiction novels. Gloag served with the Welsh Guards during the First World War, and was invalided home after suffering gas poisoning.
Known for:
- Short Dictionary of Furniture (1952)
- British furniture makers (1945)
- English Furniture (1934)
- Time, taste and furniture (1925)
- Men and buildings (1931)