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 Manes

Born: January 8, 1949 (age 76)
Bio: Stephen Manes is the author of the 2011 nonfiction book Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear: Inside the Land of Ballet. Its subject, the workings of a ballet company, marked a significant departure for an author best known for his journalism on technology and his books for children.
Known for:
- Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! (1982)
- Gates (1993)
- Make four million dollars by next Thursday! (1991)
- Chicken Trek (1987)