Tag: art
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October 29, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Freedom is the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.” — Andrew J. Galambos BIRTHDAYS: 1656 Edmond Halley, English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. Halley encouraged and helped fund the publication of Isaac Newton’s influential Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687). From observations Halley made in…
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October 28, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” — Erasmus BIRTHDAYS: 1466 Erasmus, Dutch humanist, Christian theologian, and philosopher. 1751 Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky, Russian-Ukrainian harpsichordist and composer (Tantum Ergo), born in Glukhov, Russian Empire. Cherubic Hymn No. 7 1754…
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October 27, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1782 Niccolò Paganini, Italian violin virtuoso, and composer. Cantabile Op. 17…
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October 26, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There’s an old saying in business: You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” — Peter H. Diamandis BIRTHDAYS: 1483 Hans Buchner, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Ravensburg, Holy Roman Empire. Fundamentum: Quem terra 1685 Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer and harpsichordist (La…
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October 25, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.” — Ambrose Bierce BIRTHDAYS: 1576 Thomas Weelkes, English organist and composer of madrigals. Thule, the Period of Cosmography + The Andalusian Merchant 1811 Évariste Galois, French mathematician. 1838 Georges Bizet, French composer of the Romantic era. Carmen: “L’amour est un…
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October 24, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Relativity applies to physics, not to ethics” — Albert Einstein BIRTHDAYS: 1607 John Lievens, Dutch painter, etcher and wood carver, born in Leiden, Dutch Republic. 1632 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch art, science and technology. A largely self-taught man in science, he is…
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October 23, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.” — Michael Crichton BIRTHDAYS: 1773 Pietro Generali, Italian composer, born in Masserano, Kingdom of Sardinia. “Che grato istante” da Elena e Olfredo 1873 William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (modern x-ray tube). 1942 Michael…
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October 22, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the…
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October 21, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The fear of freedom is the fear of assuming responsibility.” — Joost Meerloo BIRTHDAYS: 1766 Peter Durand, English merchant and inventor of tin cans for preserving food. 1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member…
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October 20, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To the degree a man does not get all he produces, or does not have the right to give it away, to that degree he is a slave.” — R.C. Hoiles, April 27, 1944 BIRTHDAYS: 1632 Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, mathematician and physicist who is one of the most highly…
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