THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”

— Richard P. Feynman

BIRTHDAYS:

1600 Simon Ives, English organist, lyra-violist, and court composer. La Cloche

1910 Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer. Meditation for Strings “Coventry”

1924 Robert D. Maurer, American physicist and co-inventor of optical fiber.

1947 Gerd Binnig, German physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics 1986 for co-inventing the scanning tunneling microscope).

MISCELLANEOUS:

IS THIS FOR REAL? Future spacecraft may travel farther by drawing momentum from planets, sunlight, and the solar wind instead of onboard fuel.

YOU COULDN’T PRY ME AWAY FROM THE TV. Apollo 11.