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.
Laura Furman

Born: 1945 (age 80)
Bio: Laura J. Furman is an American author best known for her role as series editor for the. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Mirabella, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere'.
Known for:
- The Mother Who Stayed: Stories (2011)
- Ordinary paradise (1998)
- Tuxedo Park (1986)
- Drinking with the cook (2001)
- The Shadow Line (1982)