Tag: art
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June 12, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”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: 1468 Juan del Encina, Spanish author and composer. Una Sañosa Porfía, and Triste…
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June 11, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”Neither can his mind be thought to be in tune, whose words do jarre; nor hisreason in frame, whose sentence is preposterous.” — Ben Jonson BIRTHDAYS: 1572 Ben Jonson, English playwright, poet and actor. 1672 Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and amateur composer, born in Padua, Republic of Venice. Serenata in…
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June 10, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “In reaction against the age-old slogan, “woman is the weaker vessel,” or the still more offensive, “woman is a divine creature,” we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that “a woman is as good as a man,” without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that.…
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June 9, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” — Epicurus BIRTHDAYS: 1588 Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and Baroque music theorist, baptized in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. “Gott hat unter uns aufgerichtet” 1597…
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June 8, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson BIRTHDAYS: 1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer and engineer who discovered four of Saturn’s moons, born in Perinaldo, Republic of Genova 1810 Robert Schumann, German composer, pianist, and…
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June 7, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.” — Peter Drucker BIRTHDAYS:1846 Władysław Górski, Polish violinist, composer and teacher. Mazurek Op. 2 nr 1 for violin and piano 1848 Paul Gauguin, French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work…
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June 6, 2025
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…
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June 5, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.” — Elie Wiesel BIRTHDAYS: 1646 Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Venetian philosopher of noble descent who in 1678 became one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university and the first to…
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June 4, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.” — Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1910 Christopher Cockerell, English inventor (Hovercraft). MISCELLANEOUS: ATTENTION COLONISTS. Japanese company ispace will attempt historic moon landing on June 5 THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY…
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June 3, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Johannes Schenck, Dutch born composer. Chaconne – Duo in RE 1726 James Hutton,…
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