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.
Quentin Skinner

Born: November 26, 1940 (age 84)
Bio: Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner is the Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary University of London and an intellectual historian.
Known for:
- Visions of Politics (2002)
- The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (1978)
- Liberty before liberalism (1988)
- Hobbes and Republican Liberty (2008)
- Machiavelli (1981)