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.
Ruth Whitman

Born: 1922
Died: 1999 (aged 77)
Bio: Ruth Whitman was an American poet, translator, and professor. Her eighth and last book is Hatshepshut, Speak to me, and her most well-known and well-regarded is Tamsen Donner: A Woman’s Journey.
Known for:
- Tamsen Donner (1977)
- Hatshepsut, speak to me (1992)
- The testing of Hanna Senesh (1986)
- Becoming a Poet: Source, Process, Practice (1982)