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.
Robyn Dawes

Born: July 23, 1936
Died: December 14, 2010 (aged 74)
Bio: Robyn Mason Dawes was an American psychologist who specialized in the field of human judgment. His research interests included human irrationality, human cooperation, intuitive expertise, and the United States AIDS policy.
Known for:
- Rational choice in an uncertain world (1988)
- Everyday irrationality (2001)
- Fundamentals of attitude measurement (1972)