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.
Tomas Tranströmer
Born: April 15, 1931
Died: March 26, 2015 (aged 83)
Bio: Tomas Gösta Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature.
Known for:
- The Great Enigma (2004)
- The half-finished heaven (2001)
- The Sorrow Gondola (1996)
- Baltics (1974)
- Memories Look at Me: A Memoir (2011)