Tag: reviews
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August 7, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Practice two things in your dealings with disease: either help or do not harm the patient.” — Hippocrates BIRTHDAYS: 1783 John Heathcoat, English inventor of lace-making machinery. 1818 Henry Litolff, French composer and pianist). Scherzo. 1903 Louis Leakey, British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist. 1933 Jerry Pournelle, Author (American polymath and science-fiction author)…
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August 6, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.” — Alexander Fleming BIRTHDAYS: 1619 Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer (also singer and theorbo player).…
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August 5, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” — Mark Twain BIRTHDAYS: 1397 Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer and theorist. Ave Maris Stella 1607 Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, German composer and court organist. Sonata sopra ‘La Monica’ 1623 Antonio Cesti, Italian composer, singer, and musician. Intorno all’idol mio 1694 Leonardo…
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August 4, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Think of your life as a system. Think of yourself as the most important system. Be useful and make yourself more valuable as you go.” — Scott Adams BIRTHDAYS: 1502 – Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish artist/painter (also architect and designer) 1755 – Nicolas-Jacques Conté (Conte), French painter and inventor (modern…
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August 3, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater…
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August 2, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Science has no prejudices — though scientists often do.” — Elisha Gray BIRTHDAYS: 1627 Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter. 1835 Elisha Grey (or Gray), American electrical engineer and inventor. 1919 John Pinkerton, English computer scientist. MISCELLANEOUS: THE 21ST CENTURY IS TURNING OUT TO BE STRANGER THAN I IMAGINED. Are Drone…
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August 1, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.” — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck BIRTHDAYS: 1685 Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States. sonata prima, and chaconne from lesson nr.6…
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July 31, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Don’t let yourself be regimented by dogma, by uniforms, by doctrines, don’t let yourselves be fooled by those who command you, by those who promise, who frighten, by those who want to replace one master with another, don’t be a flock of sheep, for heaven’s sake, don’t hide under the umbrella…
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July 30, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller BIRTHDAYS: 1511 Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and art historian. 1818 Emily Brontë, British novelist (Wuthering Heights) 1855 James E. Kelly, American sculptor (“Sculptor of American History”)…
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July 29, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.” — Confucius BIRTHDAYS: 1590 Gilles Hayne, Flemish composer. Matthew passion (excerpt 1) 1805 Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian, political writer, and author (Democracy in America) 1841 Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian physician/scientist (identified the bacterium causing leprosy) 1878 Don…
