THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

— Frederick Douglass

BIRTHDAYS:

70 BC Virgil, ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

1608 Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Galileo. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles, born in Rome, Papal States.

1836 James Tissot, French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist.

1844 Friedrich Nietzsche, German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.

1881 P. G. Wodehouse, English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.

1920 Mario Puzo, American author and screenwriter.

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

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