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.
Louis Menand

Born: January 21, 1952 (age 73)
Bio: Louis Menand is an American critic and essayist, best known for his book The Metaphysical Club, an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th and early 20th century America.
Known for:
- American studies (2002)
- Discovering Modernism (1987)
- El Club de Los Metafisicos (2002)