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.
W. H. Murray

Born: March 18, 1913
Died: March 19, 1996 (aged 83)
Bio: William Hutchison Murray was a Scottish mountaineer and writer, one of a group of active mountain climbers, mainly from Clydeside, before and just after World War II.
Known for:
- Rob Roy MacGregor: His Life and Times (1982)
- Mountaineering in Scotland (1947)
- The Story of Everest (1953)
- Scotland's Mountains (1987)