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.
Paul Collier
Born: April 25, 1949 (age 76)
Bio: Sir Paul Collier is professor of economics and public policy in the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.
Known for:
- The Bottom Billion (2007)
- Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World (2013)
- Wars, guns, and votes (2009)