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.
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich

Born: March 8, 1914
Died: December 2, 1987 (aged 73)
Bio: Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich ForMemRS, also known as YaB, was a Russian physicist of Belarusian Jewish ethnicity, who is known for his prolific contributions in cosmology and the physics of thermonuclear and hydrodynamical phenomena.