Tony's Garden

“We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.” ― H.G. Wells BIRTHDAYS: 1706 Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, German composer.…

“People think of education as something they can finish.” ― Isaac Asimov BIRTHDAYS: 1593 Gottfried Scheidt, German composer and organist. Bergamasca, and Galliarda la Battaglia, and Variations on a Gagliarda by John Dowland MISCELLANY: DOES ANYONE APOLOGIZE FOR ANYTHING? No One Apologizes for the Theft of Time “NEVER ATTRIBUTE TO MALICE THAT WHICH IS ADEQUATELY…

“I don’t want to believe. I want to know.” ― Carl Sagan BIRTHDAYS: 1749 Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician, astronomer, historian of astronomy, and geodesist 1806 William Dyce, Scottish painter and educator. 1922 Damon Francis Knight, American sci-fi author 1932 Mike Royko, American journalist (Chicago Daily News) and author MISCELLANY: DON’T WORRY – YOU’LL…

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” ― Bruce Lee BIRTHDAYS: 1587 Francesca Caccini, Italian singer, composer. O che nuovo stupor, and Chi desia, and Antri gelati 1636 Pietro Sanmartini, Italian composer. Concerto à Flauto solo, e Basso in F major, I. 1684 Johann Gottfried Walther,…

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” ― Plutarch BIRTHDAYS: 1677 Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist and inventor (first person to measure blood pressure) 1730 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian military officer and a Founding Father of the United States 1743 Marquis de Condorcet, French philosopher and…

“The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern industrialism and all the moral, intellectual, technological, and therapeutical achievements of the last centuries have been built. It rests with men whether they will make the proper use of the rich treasure with…

“The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long…

“Science is supposed to be challenged, questioned, tested, and scrutinized. That’s the entire point. If that is not permissible and basic lines of inquiry are censored or taboo, then it’s not science, but secular dogma.” ― Zuby BIRTHDAYS: 1737 Michael Haydn, Austrian composer. Konzert für Horn, Altposaune und Orchester. 1760 Luigi Cherubini, Italian musical prodigy,…

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 1660 Daniel Defoe, English writer, trader, journalist, pamphleteer and spy 1682 Theodor Christlieb Reinhold, German composer. sonata per oboe e basso 1819 Clara Schumann,…

“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime;…