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 Turnbull

Born: July 7, 1909
Died: December 21, 1998 (aged 89)
Bio: Sir Richard Gordon Turnbull was a British colonial governor and the last governor of the British mandate of Tanganyika from 1958 to 1961. Following the country's independence, he was governor-general from 9 December 1961 9 December 1962.