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.
Roland Huntford

Born: 1927 (age 98)
Bio: Roland Huntford is an author, principally of biographies of Polar explorers. He lives in Cambridge, and was formerly Scandinavian correspondent of The Observer, also acting as their winter sports correspondent.
Known for:
- Scott and Amundsen: Last Place on Earth (1979)
- The New Totalitarians (1971)
- Shackleton (1985)
- Nansen: The Explorer as Hero (1997)