Tag: science
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August 10, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch BIRTHDAYS: 1560 Hieronymus Praetorius, German choral composer, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire. excerpt from Praetorius’ Seventh “Magnificat”, and Tota pulchra es, and Kyrie (Missa Tulerunt Dominum meum), and „Magnificat Primi Toni, Versus discanto”…
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August 9, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “‘Cultural appropriation’ is such a stupid concept. Particularly amongst people who claim to like diversity and the mixing of cultures.” — Zuby BIRTHDAYS: 1593 Izaak Walton, English biographer and author (The Compleat Angler). 1631 John Dryden, English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England’s first Poet…
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August 8, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “People who pride themselves on their ‘complexity’ and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1571 John Ward, English composer. If heav’n’s just wrath, and Come Sable Night 1646 Godfrey Kneller, German-British…
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August 7, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe BIRTHDAYS: 1783 John Heathcoat,…
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August 6, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.” — Alexander Fleming BIRTHDAYS: 1619 Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer and singer of the Baroque Period. During her lifetime, Strozzi published eight volumes of her own music, and had more secular music in print than any other composer of the era. This was…
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August 5, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “He only profits from praise who values criticism.” — Heinrich Heine BIRTHDAYS: 1397 Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer and theorist, born in Beersel, Burgundian Netherlands. Nuper Rosarum Flores 1607 Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, German composer and court organist, born in Hagenau, Alsace. Holy Roman Empire. Sonata Sopra la Monica 1623 Antonio Cesti,…
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August 4, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.” — Walter E. Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1502 Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish artist, architect and designer of tapestries and stained glass (court…
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August 3, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or theory.” — John Thomas Scopes BIRTHDAYS: 1645 August Kuhnel, German composer…
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August 2, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Science has no prejudices — though scientists often do.” — Elisha Gray BIRTHDAYS: 1775 José Ángel Lamas, Venezuelan chirimía player, bassoonist, and composer. ‘Popule Meus’ 1835 Elisha Grey, American electrical engineer and inventor (Telephone). 1919 John Pinkerton, pioneering British computer designer. Along with David Caminer, he designed England’s first business computer,…
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August 1, 2025
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: 10 BC Claudius, Roman emperor (first to be born outside Italy). 1685 Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, Italian composer, born…
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