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.
Londa Schiebinger
Born: May 13, 1952 (age 72)
Bio: Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Department of History, and by courtesy the d-school, Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1984.
Known for:
- Nature's Body (1993)
- The Mind Has No Sex? (1989)
- Has Feminism Changed Science? (1999)
- Plants and Empire (2004)