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Thought for the Day: “Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.” ― Richard P. Feynman Birthdays: 1860 Isaac Albéniz, composer. Asturias. 1874 G. K. Chesterton, English writer. MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth RELATED: Collateral Global

Thought for the Day: “We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking…

Thought for the Day: “There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.” ― Buddha Birthdays: 1799 Fromental Halévy, composer. Rachel, quand du Seigneur… 1837 Ivan Kramskoi, painter. 1901 Conrad Elvehjem, American biochemist and nutrition scientist. 1915 Herman Wouk, American novelist. 1934 Harlan Ellison, American sci-fi author. MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE,…

Thought for the Day: “Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow’s work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn’t quite understand tomorrow’s work, and they actually made it harder.” ― Ward Cunningham Birthdays: 1591 Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer. Mein Junges Leben hat ein End, and Ricercar 1949…

Thought for the Day: “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Birthdays: 1494 Pontormo, painter. 1803 Ralph Waldo…

Thought for the Day: “What’s worrisome about the state of discourse in the free West is that comedians won’t go to university campuses. It’s the same thing.  You don’t get to be funny.  So, if you can’t be funny then you’re not free.  You know, the jester and the king’s courts is the only person…

Thought for the Day: “If anything, silencing people can make them even more passionate about their “forbidden” opinions. When you do that, it just solidifies your position as the unreasonable, domineering enemy, and theirs as the victim and martyr. It might discourage them from ever wanting to engage with anyone with your opinion ever again.…

Thought for the Day: “Freedom of speech doesn’t apply only if you like the message; it applies to everyone. And if it is gone, so is a free society.” ― Pamela Geller Birthdays: 1759 Gervais-François Couperin, composer. Andante (from Sonata Op.1 nº1) 1813 Richard Wagner, German composer. Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde. 1859 Arthur Conan…

Thought for the Day: “A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” ― Alexander Pope Birthdays: 1471 Albrecht Dürer, German Renaissance painter and printmaker 1633 Joseph de La Barre, French composer 1671…

Thought for the Day: “Far too many people believe that they are owed some kind of ‘safe space’ from opposing ideas, and the fact is, that just isn’t true – and we shouldn’t allow people to say that it is true without correcting them.” ― Kat Timpf Birthdays: 1554 Paolo Bellasio, composer. Quel tristarel d’amore…