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 Noble Wilford

Born: October 4, 1933 (age 91)
Bio: John Noble Wilford is an author and award-winning journalist for The New York Times.
Known for:
- The mapmakers (1981)
- We reach the moon (1969)
- Mars beckons (1990)
- The mysterious history of Columbus (1991)