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.
Nigel Balchin
Born: December 3, 1908
Died: May 17, 1970 (aged 61)
Bio: Nigel Balchin was an English novelist and screenwriter particularly known for his novels written during and immediately after World War II: Darkness Falls from the Air, The Small Back Room and Mine Own Executioner.
Known for:
- Darkness falls from the air (1942)
- The Small Back Room (1943)
- A way through the wood (1951)
- The anatomy of villainy (1950)
- Separate Lies