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Thought for the Day: “The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.” ― Herbert Spencer Birthdays: 1636 Esaias Reusner: Allemanda a minor, Suite in F major 1854 Henri Poincaré MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for…

Thought for the Day: “Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable…

Thought for the Day: “Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.” ― Marcus Aurelius Birthdays: 1623 Johann Adam Reincken: Toccata in G, and Fugue in G minor 1759 Mary Wollstonecraft 1791 Samuel Morse 1820 Herbert Spencer MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE,…

Thought for the Day: “Lack of power is a great excuse for failure, but sufficient power is never a necessary condition of leadership. There is never sufficient power. In fact, it is success in the absence of sufficient power that defines leadership.” ― Tom DeMarco Birthdays: 161 Marcus Aurelius 1538 Gian Paolo Lomazzo 1785 John…

Thought for the Day: “What would you think of someone who said, ‘I would like to have a cat, provided it barked’? Yet your statement that you favor an FDA, provided it behaves as you believe desirable is precisely equivalent. The biological laws that specify the characteristics of cats are no more rigid than the…

Thought for the Day: “Let us not forget that violence does not and cannot exist by itself; it is invariably intertwined with the lie. They are linked in the most intimate, most organic and profound fashion: violence cannot conceal itself behind anything except lies, and lies have nothing to maintain them save violence. Anyone who…

Thought for the Day: “Even as our world is being daily transformed by breathtaking innovations in science and technology, many people continue to imagine that math and science are mostly a matter of memorizing formulas to get “the right answer.” Even engineering, which is in fact the process of creating something from scratch or putting…

Thought for the Day: “I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.” ― Calvin Coolidge Birthdays: 1658 Giuseppe Torelli: Concerto Grosso…

Thought for the Day: “If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can’t be breakthroughs.” ― Peter Diamandis Birthdays: 1555 Ludovico Carracci 1806 Peter van Schendel 1816 Charlotte Brontë MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND…

Thought for the Day: “It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.” ― Murray N. Rothbard Birthdays: 1850 Daniel Chester French 1904 George Stibitz MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth RELATED: Collateral Global