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.
Leonard Shlain

Born: August 28, 1937
Died: May 11, 2009 (aged 71)
Bio: Leonard Shlain was a US surgeon, author, and inventor. He was chairperson of laparoscopic surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, and was an associate professor of surgery at University of California, San Francisco.
Known for:
- Art & Physics (1991)
- The Alphabet Versus the Goddess (1998)
- Sex, Time and Power (2003)
- Finding Balance (2006)