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.
Thomas Eisner

Born: June 25, 1929
Died: March 25, 2011 (aged 81)
Bio: Thomas Eisner was a German-American entomologist and ecologist, known as the "father of chemical ecology." He was a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, and Director of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology.
Known for:
- For Love of Insects (2003)
- Secret weapons (2005)
- Eisner's World: Life Through Many Lenses (2009)
- Chromatic Fantasy (2000)
- Insect World