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 Smale

Born: July 15, 1930 (age 94)
Bio: Stephen Smale is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan. His research concerns topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics.
Known for:
- The Collected Papers of Stephen Smale (2000)
- Complexity and Real Computation (1998)
- The mathematics of time (1980)