Tag: inventions
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March 13, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” — Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1700 Michel Blavet, French composer. Sonata Nr. 4 in g minor “La Lumague” 1855 Percival Lowell, American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, and furthered theories of a ninth planet within…
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March 12, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.” — Lord Acton BIRTHDAYS: 1710 Thomas Arne, English composer. Rule Britannia 1788 Pierre-Jean David d’Angers], French sculptor. 1824 Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy, coined “black body” radiation), born in Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia. 1835 Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American scientist, mathematician…
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March 11, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1811 Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, French astronomer (made calculations that proved existence of Neptune) 1903 James Franklin Hyde, American chemist and inventor. He…
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March 10, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.” — Allan Bloom BIRTHDAYS: 1844…
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March 9, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” — Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1454 Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence for whom “America” is named. 1910 Samuel Barber, American…
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March 8, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Governments never learn; only people learn.” — Milton Friedman BIRTHDAYS: 1560 Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian Prince of Venosa and composer, born in Venosa, Kingdom of Naples. Plange Quasi Virgo, and Moro, lasso, al mio duolo, and O Vos Omnes, and Tenebrae Factae Sunt, and Omnes amici mei 1714 Carl Philipp Emanuel…
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March 7, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “What is the human purpose in society? It is to exchange one good for another good more desired. Putting it on a personal basis, it is a matter of benefiting yourself by getting something you desire from another person who, at the same time, benefits himself by getting something that he…
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March 6, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “What is progress? You might think that the question is so subjective and culturally relative as to be forever unanswerable. In fact, it’s one of the easier questions to answer. Most people agree that life is better than death. Health is better than sickness. Sustenance is better than hunger. Abundance is…
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March 5, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny…” — Isaac Asimov BIRTHDAYS: 1637 Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and inventor (fire hose; street lighting). 1696 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian Venetian Rococo painter. 1794 Jacques…
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March 4, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” — Andrew Carnegie BIRTHDAYS: 1610 William Dobson, English portraitist and painter. 1678 Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Four Seasons: Winter (L’Inverno) 1756 Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter. 1826…
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