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.
Miss Read

Born: April 17, 1913
Died: April 7, 2012 (aged 98)
Bio: Dora Jessie Saint née Shafe, best known by the pen name Miss Read, was an English novelist, by profession a schoolmistress. Her pseudonym was derived from her mother's maiden name.
Known for:
- Thrush Green (1959)
- Village Diary (1957)
- A peaceful retirement (1996)
- Winter in Thrush Green (1961)
- Village School (1955)