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 J. Samuelson

Born: December 23, 1945 (age 79)
Bio: Robert Jacob Samuelson is a journalist for The Washington Post, where he has written about business and economic issues since 1977, and is syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group. He was a columnist for Newsweek magazine from 1984 to 2011.
Known for:
- The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath (2008)
- Good Life & Its Discontent (1995)
- Untruth: Why the Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong (2001)