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 Rankin
Born: July 27, 1949 (age 75)
Bio: Robert Fleming Rankin is a prolific British humorous novelist. Born in Parsons Green, London, he started writing in the late 1970s, and first entered the bestsellers lists with Snuff Fiction in 1999, by which time his previous eighteen books had sold around one million copies.
Known for:
- The Antipope (1981)
- The Brentford Triangle (1982)
- East of Ealing (1984)
- The Witches of Chiswick (2003)