Tag: fiction
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February 12, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” — Charles Darwin BIRTHDAYS: 1567 Thomas Campion, English composer, poet and physician. Coordonné, and Now hath Flora,…
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February 11, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas A. Edison BIRTHDAYS: 1800 William Henry Fox Talbot, English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. 1802 Lydia Maria…
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February 10, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.” — Frederich Schiller BIRTHDAYS: 1696 Johann Melchior Molter, German composer, born in Tiefenort, Thuringia, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar. Clarinet Concerto. 1775 Charles Lamb, British critic/poet/essayist. 1795 Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French Romantic painter, etcher and sculptor. 1890 Boris Pasternak, Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary…
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February 9, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the…
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February 8, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Courage is not an ability one either possesses or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it.” — Alfred Adler BIRTHDAYS: 1708 Vaclav Jan…
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February 7, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.” —…
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February 6, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To measure is to know.” — Eratosthenes of Cyrene BIRTHDAYS: 1695 André Chéron, French organist, harpsichordist, and composer. Sonate en FaM 1913 Mary Leakey, British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape believed to be ancestral to humans. 1941 Spencer Silver, American scientist and inventor of Post-it®…
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February 5, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” — Alfred Adler BIRTHDAYS: 1534 Giovanni de’ Bardi, Italian writer, soldier, composer, and patron of the arts (The Florentine Camerata), born in Republic of Florence. Venid a suspirar al verde prado 1594 Biagio Marini, Italian violin virtuoso…
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February 4, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as…
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February 3, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.” — Richard P. Feynman BIRTHDAYS: 1525 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, born in Palestrina, Papal States.…
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