Tony's Garden

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” — Sir Winston Churchill BIRTHDAYS: 1510 Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish blind organist and composer, born in Castrillo Mota de Judíos, Spain. Pavana con su glosa, and Diferencias sobre la Gallarda Milanesa,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I am not young enough to know everything.” — Oscar Wilde BIRTHDAYS: 1902 William Walton, British composer. Crown Imperial. MISCELLANEOUS: ATTENTION STARGAZERS. Night sky for March 27-29 — See the moon glow with the heart of a stellar lion BEFORE THE NEXT LOCK DOWN (INCLUDING VIOLATING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Remember that all we have is “on loan” from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice. Thus, we should love all our dear ones, but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever—nay, no promise even that we may…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.” — Wilhelm Röntgen BIRTHDAYS: 1710 Joseph Abaco, Italian composer, born in Brussels, Spanish Netherlands. Concerto No 6 Op 5 in D Major 1845 Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist best known for his discovery of X-rays… 1851 Vincent d’Indy, French…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1684 Johann Graf, German composer, born in Free Imperial City of Nürnberg, Holy Roman Empire. Sonate G Dur Op 2/VI…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil.” — Hannah Arendt BIRTHDAYS: 1495 Leonhard…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.” — Robert Heilbroner BIRTHDAYS: 1681 Georg Philipp Telemann, German late Baroque composer, and multi-instrumentalist, born in Magdeburg, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Holy Roman Empire. Sonata in D major, TWV 44:1, and Quatuor en…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “What we know is not much. What we don’t know is enormous.” — Pierre Simon De Laplace BIRTHDAYS: 1749 Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace, French mathematician, astronomer and physicist (stability of the solar system). 1910 Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director, producer, and screenwriter whose innovative storytelling, profound humanism, and dynamic visual style…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.” — Michael Faraday BIRTHDAYS: 1599 Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter (Charles I of England), born in Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands. 1700 Giuseppe…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ““Since 1849 I have studied incessantly, under all its aspects, a question which was already in my mind since 1832. I confess that my scheme is still a mere dream, and I do not shut my eyes to the fact that so long as I alone believe it to be possible,…