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 Hirst

Born: May 20, 1946
Died: June 17, 2003 (aged 57)
Bio: Paul Quentin Hirst was a British sociologist and political theorist. He became Professor of Social Theory at Birkbeck, University of London in 1985 and held the post until his death from a stroke and brain haemorrhage.
Known for:
- Globalization in Question (1996)
- Associative democracy (1994)
- Space and Power
- Knowledge and the curriculum (1975)
- War and Power in the 21st Century (2001)