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.
Otis Dudley Duncan

Born: December 2, 1921
Died: November 16, 2004 (aged 82)
Bio: Otis Dudley Duncan was "the most important quantitative sociologist in the world in the latter half of the 20th century", according to sociologist Leo Goodman.
Known for:
- Notes on social measurement (1984)
- Introduction to structural equation models (1973)
- Metropolis and region (1960)
- Social change in a metropolitan community (1973)