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.
Sander Gilman

Born: February 21, 1944 (age 81)
Bio: Sander L. Gilman is an American cultural and literary historian, born in New York. He is particularly well known for his contributions to Jewish studies and the history of medicine. He is the author or editor of over eighty books.
Known for:
- The Jew's body (1991)
- Seeing the insane (1982)
- Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity (2008)
- Difference and pathology (1985)
- Jewish Self-Hatred (1986)