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.
Philip Rieff

Born: December 15, 1922
Died: July 1, 2006 (aged 83)
Bio: Philip Rieff was an American sociologist and cultural critic, who taught sociology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1961 until 1992.
Known for:
- The triumph of the therapeutic (1966)
- Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959)
- My life among the deathworks (2006)
- The feeling intellect (1990)