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 Schnabel

Born: July 17, 1948 (age 76)
Bio: Paul Schnabel is a Dutch sociologist and as of 2006 the director of an agency of the Dutch government called Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau, usually abbreviated as SCP. He is also professor at Utrecht University.