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.
Stephen Greenblatt
Born: November 7, 1943 (age 81)
Bio: Stephen Jay Greenblatt is an American Shakespearean, literary historian, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He is John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.
Known for:
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011)
- Renaissance self-fashioning (1980)
- Marvelous Possessions (1991)
- Hamlet in purgatory (2002)