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 McGuane

Born: December 11, 1939 (age 85)
Bio: Thomas Francis McGuane III is an American writer. His work includes ten novels, short fiction and screenplays, as well as three collections of essays devoted to his life in the outdoors.
Known for:
- Ninety-two in the shade. (1973)
- Crow Fair: Stories (2015)
- Driving on the Rim (2010)
- The bushwhacked piano (1971)
- The Sporting Club (1968)