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.
Virginia Hamilton

Born: March 12, 1934
Died: February 19, 2002 (aged 67)
Bio: Virginia Esther Hamilton was a multi-award winning African-American children's books author. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the U.S.
Known for:
- The People Could Fly (1985)
- The House of Dies Drear (1968)
- M. C. Higgins, the Great (1974)
- Zeely (1967)
- Her stories (1995)