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.
Oliver J. Flanagan

Born: May 22, 1920
Died: April 26, 1987 (aged 66)
Bio: Oliver J. Flanagan was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served in Dáil Éireann for 43 years and was Minister for Defence for six months. Prior to his election to the Dáil, Flanagan had been Secretary of a local branch of the Fianna Fáil party.