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 Stigler

Born: August 10, 1941 (age 83)
Bio: Stephen Mack Stigler is Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago.
Known for:
- The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom (2016)
- Springer Statistics Calendar 1981 (1980)