Tag: Literature
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May 25, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson BIRTHDAYS: 1494 Jacopo da Pontormo (Italian painter,…
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May 24, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “An eighteen year old boy is carried into the shock ward and he looks up at me trustingly asking, ‘How am I doing, nurse?’ I just kiss his forehead and say, ‘You are doing just fine soldier.’ He smiles sweetly and says, ‘I was just checking.’ Then he dies. We all…
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May 23, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes.” — Carl Linnaeus BIRTHDAYS: 1707 Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, explorer, and the Father of Taxonomy 1710 François Gaspard Adam, French sculptor. 1741 Andrea Lucchesi, Italian organist and composer. Sonata I in Do (C maj) 1754 Andrea Appiani, Italian royal painter.…
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May 22, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “What can be added to the happiness of a person who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?” — Adam Smith BIRTHDAYS: 1644 Gabriël Grupello, Flemish Baroque sculptor. 1650 Richard Brakenburgh, Dutch Golden Age painter. 1694 Daniel Gran, Austrian painter. 1733 – Hubert Robert, French painter. 1783…
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May 21, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Profound thoughts arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas, but also dubious ideas.” — Andrei Sakharov BIRTHDAYS: 1471 Albrecht Dürer, German Renaissance painter and printmaker (also noted for mathematical and theoretical work in geometry/perspective). 1633 Joseph de…
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May 20, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know…
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May 19, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern parent or teacher who tried to force into them a non-comprehending parrot-like apparent competence–a duty and a duty alone–and no hint of magic or beauty of…
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May 18, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now.” — Omar Khayyám, Edward Fitzgerald’s The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam BIRTHDAYS: 1048 Omar Khayyám, Persian polymath whose multifaceted career encompassed mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and poetry, making…
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May 17, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.” — Alan Kay BIRTHDAYS: 1749 Edward Jenner, English physician and scientist who pioneered vaccination. 1866 Erik Satie, French composer and pianist…
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May 16, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.” — Voltaire BIRTHDAYS: 1782 John Sell Cotman, English water color artist / painter. 1831 David Edward Hughes, British-American inventor (microphone, teleprinter). 1898 Tamara de Lempicka, Polish Art Deco portrait painter. 1906: Margret Rey, German-American author and…
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