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.
William Gaddis
Born: December 29, 1922
Died: December 16, 1998 (aged 75)
Bio: William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. was an American novelist. The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 and two others, J R and A Frolic of His Own, won the annual U.S.
Known for:
- The Recognitions (1955)
- Carpenter's Gothic (1985)
- A Frolic of His Own (1994)
- Agapē Agape
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