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 Selzer

Born: June 24, 1928
Died: June 15, 2016 (aged 87)
Bio: Allen Richard Selzer was an American surgeon and author.
Known for:
- Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery (1974)
- The Doctor Stories (1998)
- Rituals of Surgery (1974)
- Knife Song Korea: A Novel (2009)