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.
Todd Gitlin
Born: January 6, 1943
Died: February 5, 2022 (aged 79)
Bio: Todd Gitlin was an American sociologist, political writer, novelist, and cultural commentator. He wrote widely on the mass media, politics, intellectual life and the arts, for both popular and scholarly publications.
Known for:
- The whole world is watching (1980)
- Inside prime time (1983)