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.
Wassily Leontief

Born: August 5, 1906
Died: February 5, 1999 (aged 92)
Bio: Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief was a German-Russian economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors.
Known for:
- Input-output economics (1966)
- Essays in economics (1966)
- The Future Impact of Automation on Workers (1986)