Tag: science
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February 15, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.” — Alfred North Whitehead BIRTHDAYS: 1557 Alfonso Fontanelli, Italian composer (Ferrara school), born in Reggio nell’Emilia, Duchy of Modena and Reggio. Io parto e nel partire 1564 Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, physicist…
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February 14, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.” — Frederick Douglass BIRTHDAYS: 1404 Leon Battista Alberti, Italian Renaissance humanist author (Dinner Pieces), architect (Tempio Malatestiano; Palazzo Rucellai; Santa Maria Novella), sculptor and cryptographer considered a founder of Western cryptography, born in Genoa, Republic of Genoa. 1513 Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, Italian…
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February 13, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?” — Marcus Tullius Cicero BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Johann Sigismund Kusser, Hungarian German composer,…
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February 12, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If every one of those good words – liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, human rights – has been called “bourgeois”, what on earth does that leave for us?” — Fang Lizhi BIRTHDAYS: 1567 Thomas Campion, English composer, poet and physician. Fain would I wed 1809 Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United…
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February 11, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas A. Edison BIRTHDAYS: 1800 William Henry Fox Talbot, English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. 1802 Lydia Maria Child,…
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January 1, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” — Edmund Burke BIRTHDAYS: 1449 Lorenzo de’ Medici, talian statesman, the de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. 1628 Christoph Bernhard, German Baroque composer…
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December 30, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance…
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December 28, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.” — Mortimer J. Adler BIRTHDAYS: 1651 Johann Krieger, German organist and composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. Es ist mir von Natur gegeben, and Fantasie in d, and Vater unser im Himmelreich, and…
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December 16, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Put up in a placewhere it is easy to seethe cryptic admonishmentT.T.T When you feel how depressinglyslowly you climbit’s well to remember thatThings Take Time.” — Piet Hein BIRTHDAYS: 1669 Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter 1770 Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven is widely regarded as the most important musical figure in the…
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December 11, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who…
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