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 Conrad

Born: 1948 (age 77)
Bio: Peter Conrad is an Australian-born academic specialising in English literature, currently teaching at Christ Church at the University of Oxford. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Known for:
- Modern times, modern places (1998)
- A song of love and death (1987)