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.
Robert Conquest
Born: July 15, 1917
Died: August 3, 2015 (aged 98)
Bio: George Robert Acworth Conquest was a British-American historian and poet, notable for his influential works on Soviet history including The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s.
Known for:
- The Great Terror (1968)
- The Harvest of Sorrow (1986)
- Stalin (1991)
- Reflections on a ravaged century (1999)
- The Dragons of Expectation (2005)