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.
Shirley Hazzard
Born: January 30, 1931
Died: December 12, 2016 (aged 85)
Bio: Shirley Hazzard is an Australian author of fiction and non-fiction. She was born in Australia, but holds citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States.
Known for:
- The Transit Of Venus (1980)
- The Great Fire (2003)
- The Bay of Noon (1970)
- Greene on Capri (2000)
- The Evening of the Holiday (1966)