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.
Mikhail Kalinin
Born: November 19, 1875
Died: June 3, 1946 (aged 70)
Bio: Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, known familiarly by Soviet citizens as "Kalinych", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist Leninist functionary, who served as head of state of the Russian SFSR and later of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946.