“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.”

― Walt Whitman

Birthdays:

1653 Georg Muffat, baroque composer. Sonata no. 2 from Armonico tributo, and Ciacona in G

1796 Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, mechanical engineer and mathematician (and the “father of thermodynamics”)

1804 Mikhail Glinka, composer. Ruslan and Ludmila – Overture

1907 Sir Frank Whittle, inventer of the turbojet engine.

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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