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.
Richard Hoggart

Born: September 24, 1918
Died: April 10, 2014 (aged 95)
Bio: Herbert Richard Hoggart was a British academic whose career covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on British popular culture.
Known for:
- The Uses of Literacy (1957)
- La Culture du pauvre (1970)
- Everyday language & everyday life (2003)
- Mass media in a mass society (2004)
- The Way We Live Now (1995)