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.
Mancur Olson
Born: January 22, 1932
Died: February 19, 1998 (aged 66)
Bio: Mancur Lloyd Olson, Jr. was an American economist and social scientist who taught economics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Known for:
- The Logic of Collective Action (1965)
- The Rise and Decline of Nations (1982)