Thought of the Day…

“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to enquire. We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.”

― J. Robert Oppenheimer

1645 August Kuhnel, German composer and accomplished viola da gamba performer. Prelude, and Partita XII Solo, and Suite XIII a-Moll – Duo in RE, and Aria X. “Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut”

1753 Charles Stanhope, 3rd earl Stanhope, English radical politician and scientist.

1811 Elisha Otis, American industrialist, founder of the Otis Elevator Company, and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails.

1900 John T. Scopes, a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools.

1920 P. D. James, English crime writer.

1924 Leon Uris, American novelist.

1941 Martha Stewart, American retail businesswoman, writer, and television personality.

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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