Thought for the Day:

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Birthdays:

1494 Pontormo, painter.

1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet.

1889 Sverre Jordan, Norwegian composer, orchestra conductor, and pianist.

1927 Robert Ludlum, author.

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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