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.
R. W. Johnson

Born: 1943 (age 82)
Bio: R. W. Johnson is a British journalist, political scientist, and historian who lives in South Africa. Born in England, he was educated at Natal University and Oxford University, as a Rhodes Scholar.
Known for:
- How Long Will South Africa Survive (1977)
- South Africa's brave new world (2009)
- South Africa: the first man, the last nation (2004)
- Politics of Recession (1985)
- The long march of the French left (1981)