Tag: inventions
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June 12, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where…
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June 11, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The shame of speaking unskilfully were small if the tongue onely were thereby disgrac’d: But as the Image of a King in his Seale ill-represented is not so much a blemish to the waxe, or the Signet that seat’d it, as to the Prince it representeth, so disordered speech is not…
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June 10, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” — Richard P. Feynman BIRTHDAYS: 1819: Gustave Courbet, French realist painter. 1832 Nicolaus Otto, German engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion engine which ran on petroleum gas and led to the modern internal…
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June 9, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe BIRTHDAYS: 1588 Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and Baroque music theorist. Also spricht der Höhe, and…
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June 8, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There are no dangerous thoughts for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise…” — Hannah Arendt BIRTHDAYS: 1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, and engineer (discovered four of Saturn’s moons). 1671 Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (Adagio in G-minor). Adagio 1810 Robert Schumann, German pianist, composer, and…
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June 7, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Is the man, for example, engaged in the mass-production of lavatory cisterns encouraged to bring to his daily monotonous toil the vision splendid of an increasingly hygienic world? I doubt it; yet there is much merit in sanitary plumbing—more, if you come to think of it, than there is in warfare.…
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June 6, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” — Thomas Mann BIRTHDAYS: 1599 Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (Las Meninas). 1606 Pierre Corneille, French poet and dramatist (El Cid). 1625 Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor. 1661 Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer. Dixit Dominus a 8…
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June 5, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” — G.K. Chesterton BIRTHDAYS: 1646 Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (first woman to receive an academic degree from a university). 1665 Nicolas Bernier, French composer. Sapho 1900 Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-British physicist and engineer (invented holography; Nobel…
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June 4, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens BIRTHDAYS: 1907 Marjan Kozina, Slovene composer. Bela Krajina. MISCELLANEOUS: ATTENTION STAR GAZERS. Night sky June 2026: What you can see tonight INTERESTING. Nursing home staffing declined in states that protected facilities from COVID-19 malpractice lawsuits, study finds
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June 3, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” — Scott Adams BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Johannes Schenck, Dutch composer. Chacone Suite X 1726 James Hutton, Scottish geologist (often called the father of modern geology). 1738 Johann Christoph Oley, German composer. “Herr Gott, Dich alle loben wir.” 1773…
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