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.
Talal Asad

Born: 1933 (age 92)
Bio: Talal Asad is an anthropologist at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Known for:
- Formations of the secular (2003)
- Genealogies of religion (1993)
- On Suicide Bombing (2007)
- Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter (1973)