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.
Patricia Hampl

Born: March 12, 1946 (age 79)
Bio: Patricia Hampl is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and is one of the founding members of the Loft Literary Center.
Known for:
- The Florist's Daughter (2007)
- A romantic education (1981)
- Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime (2006)
- I Could Tell You Stories (1999)
- Virgin Time (1992)