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 van Gulik

Born: August 9, 1910
Died: September 24, 1967 (aged 57)
Bio: Robert Hans van Gulik was an orientalist, diplomat, musician, and writer, best known for the Judge Dee historical mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An.
Known for:
- The Chinese Maze Murders (1951)
- The Chinese Bell Murders (1958)
- Judge Dee at Work (1967)
- The Haunted Monastery (1961)
- The Lacquer Screen (1962)