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.
Peter Ackroyd

Born: October 5, 1949 (age 75)
Bio: Peter Ackroyd is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London.
Known for:
- London: The Biography (2000)
- Hawksmoor (1985)
- Thames (2007)
- Shakespeare: The Biography (2005)
- The Life of Thomas More (1998)