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 Terborgh
Born: April 16, 1936 (age 89)
Bio: John Whittle Terborgh is a James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science at Duke University and Co-Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation.
Known for:
- Requiem for Nature (1999)
- Five New World primates (1983)
- Diversity and the tropical rain forest (1992)
- Where have all the birds gone? (1989)
- Tropical Deforestation (1992)