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.
Mary Frances Berry

Born: February 17, 1938 (age 87)
Bio: Mary Frances Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the former chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
Known for:
- My face is black is true (2005)
- Black Resistance/White Law (1971)
- Long memory (1982)