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.
Sholem Aleichem
Born: March 2, 1859
Died: May 13, 1916 (aged 57)
Bio: Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a leading Yiddish author and playwright.
Known for:
- Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories (1894)
- The bloody hoax
- Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son
- Happy New Year! and Other Stories
- The adventures of Menahem-Mendl