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.
Menachem Elon
Born: November 1, 1923
Died: February 6, 2013 (aged 89)
Bio: Menachem Elon was an Israeli jurist and Professor of Law specializing in Mishpat Ivri, Orthodox rabbi, and a prolific author on traditional Jewish law. He was the head of the Jewish Law Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.