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 Herr

Born: April 13, 1940
Died: June 23, 2016 (aged 76)
Bio: Michael Herr is an American writer and former war correspondent, best known as the author of Dispatches, a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire magazine during the Vietnam War.
Known for:
- Dispatches (1977)
- Kubrick (2000)
- The Old Queen and the Maui Maiden (2012)
- Walter Winchell: A Novel (1990)
- The Bones of the Kuhina Nui (2006)