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.
Melvin Dixon

Born: May 29, 1950
Died: October 26, 1992 (aged 42)
Bio: Melvin Dixon was an American Professor of Literature, and an author, poet and translator. He wrote about black gay men.
Known for:
- Vanishing Rooms (1991)
- Love's instruments
- Ride out the wilderness (1987)
- Trouble the water (1989)
- A Melvin Dixon critical reader