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 Ziman

Born: May 16, 1925
Died: January 2, 2005 (aged 79)
Bio: John Michael Ziman was a British-born New Zealand physicist and humanist who worked in the area of condensed matter physics. He was a spokesman for science, as well as a teacher and author.
Known for:
- Principles of the theory of solids (1964)
- Public knowledge (1968)
- An introduction to science studies (1984)
- Models of disorder (1979)