Thought for the Day:

“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true. We have a method, and that method helps us to reach not absolute truth, only asymptotic approaches to the truth — never there, just closer and closer, always finding vast new oceans of undiscovered possibilities. Cleverly designed experiments are the key.”

― Carl Sagan

Birthdays:

1649 Ferdinand van Kessel

1740 Haym Salomon

1763 Domenico Dragonetti: Nanny Double Bass Concerto – I, and Duet for Cello and Bass

1770 William Wordsworth

1891 Ole Kirk Christiansen

1920 Ravi Shankar: Ravi Shankar on the Dick Cavett Show

1946 Bob Metcalfe

MISCELLANY:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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