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. J. T. Mitchell

Born: March 24, 1942 (age 83)
Bio: William John Thomas Mitchell known as W.J.T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He is also the editor of Critical Inquiry, and contributes to the journal October.
Known for:
- What Do Pictures Want? (2005)
- Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (1986)
- The last dinosaur book (1998)