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 Luther Long

Born: January 1, 1861
Died: October 31, 1927 (aged 66)
Bio: John Luther Long was an American lawyer and writer best known for his short story "Madame Butterfly", which was based on the recollections of his sister, Jennie Correll, who had been to Japan with her husband a Methodist missionary.
Known for:
- Madame Butterfly (1898)
- The way of the gods (1906)
- The Fox-Woman (1900)
- Sixty Jane (1903)