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 Lord
Born: October 8, 1917
Died: May 19, 2002 (aged 84)
Bio: John Walter Lord, Jr., was an American author, best known for his documentary-style non-fiction account A Night to Remember, about the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
Known for:
- A Night to Remember (1955)
- The Night Lives On (1976)
- Day of infamy (1957)
- The miracle of Dunkirk (1982)
- Midway! Incredible Victory