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.
Walter B. Pitkin

Born: February 6, 1878
Died: January 25, 1953 (aged 74)
Bio: Walter Boughton Pitkin was an American lecturer in philosophy and psychology at Columbia University, and professor in the Columbia University School of Journalism.
Known for:
- Life Begins at Forty (1932)
- The Art Of Rapid Reading (1929)
- The Art Of Useful Writing (1940)
- The Art of Learning (1931)