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 le Carré
Born: October 19, 1931
Died: December 12, 2020 (aged 89)
Bio: David John Moore Cornwell, pen name John le Carré, was a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, Cornwell worked for the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service, and began writing novels under a pen name.
Known for:
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)
- A Perfect Spy (1986)
- The Night Manager (1993)
- The Honourable Schoolboy (1977)
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