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.
Vandana Shiva
Born: November 5, 1952 (age 72)
Bio: Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist and anti-globalization author. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than twenty books.
Known for:
- Earth democracy (2005)
- Stolen Harvest (2000)
- Soil not oil (2007)
- Monocultures of the mind (1993)
- Making Peace with the Earth (2012)