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 Levins
Born: June 1, 1930
Died: January 19, 2016 (aged 85)
Bio: Richard "Dick" Levins was an ex-tropical farmer turned ecologist, a population geneticist, biomathematician, mathematical ecologist, and philosopher of science who had researched diversity in human populations.
Known for:
- The Dialectical Biologist (1985)
- Evolution in changing environments (1968)