THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Science is an integral part of culture. It’s not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It’s one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.”

— Stephen Jay Gould

BIRTHDAYS:

1559 Cigoli, painter

1655 Sébastien de Brossard, composer. Stabat Mater (extraits), and Beati immaculati

1688 Ferdinand Brokoff, sculptor

1812 Richard Hoe, inventor

1829 Anselm Feuerbach, painte

1858 Fernand Khnopff, painter and sculptor

MISCELLANEOUS:

ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE. 25 years ago, a NASA astronaut witnessed the tragic 9/11 attacks from space. Here’s what he saw.