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.
Michael Arlen
Born: November 16, 1895
Died: June 23, 1956 (aged 60)
Bio: Michael Arlen, born Dikran Kouyoumdjian, was an Armenian essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England.
Known for:
- Green Hat (1924)
- Hell! said the Duchess (1934)
- The London venture (1919)
- Exiles
- The romantic lady (1921)
Michael Arlen Quotes