THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”

— Charles Darwin

BIRTHDAYS:

1567 Thomas Campion, English composer, poet and physician. Coordonné, and Now hath Flora, and Come Away

1791 Peter Cooper, American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist.

1809 Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

1809 Charles Darwin, English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

1936 Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident (Tiananmen Square, 1989)

1948 Raymond Kurzweil, renowned American inventor, author, and futurist known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence (AI), optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, and electronic musical instruments.

MISCELLANEOUS:

BEAUTIFUL JOB! SpaceX launches Crew-12 astronauts to short-staffed International Space Station. ‘We have left the Earth, but the Earth has not left us.’

BEFORE THE NEXT LOCK DOWN (INCLUDING VIOLATING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES SHOULD BE OBLIGATED TO READ THE FOLLOWING: