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.
Patrick MacGill

Born: December 24, 1889
Died: 1963 (aged 73)
Bio: Patrick MacGill was an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as "The Navvy Poet" because he had worked as a navvy before he began writing.
Known for:
- Children of the dead end (1914)
- The rat-pit (1915)
- The Red Horizon (1916)
- Great Push (1916)
- Moleskin Joe (1923)