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.
Joseph Greenberg

Born: May 28, 1915
Died: May 7, 2001 (aged 85)
Bio: Joseph Harold Greenberg was an American linguist, principally known for his work in two areas, linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.
Known for:
- The theory of social situations (1990)