Tag: science
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March 3, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the state is profoundly and inherently anti-capitalist.” — Murray Rothbard BIRTHDAYS: 1845 Georg Cantor, mathematician who played a pivotal role in…
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March 2, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.” — Isabel Paterson BIRTHDAYS: 1793 Sam Houston, American general and statesman who played…
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March 1, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.” — Adam Smith BIRTHDAYS: 1445 Sandro Botticelli, Florentine Renaissance painter. 1810 Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. All 21 Nocturnes. 1817…
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February 28, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” — Robert Heinlein BIRTHDAYS: 1616 Kaspar Förster, German composer.…
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February 27, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.” — Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS: 1622 Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter. 1649…
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February 26, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Not being heard is no reason for silence.” — Victor Hugo BIRTHDAYS: 1564 Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist (Dr Faustus). 1587 Stefano Landi, Italian opera composer (Il Sant’Alessio), and teacher, born in Rome, Papal States. Passacaglia della Vita, and A che più l’arco tendere 1675 Johann Philipp Treiber, German composer,…
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February 25, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the…
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February 24, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “We are on the event horizon of the Singularity.” — Elon Musk BIRTHDAYS: 1619 Charles Le Brun, French classical painter who helped establish the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture 1684 Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor. 1786 Wilhelm Grimm, German author, philologist and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob…
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February 23, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the…
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February 22, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” — George Washington BIRTHDAYS: 1542 Santino Garsi da Parma, Italian lutenist and composer, born in Parma, Papal States. La ne mente per la gola 1732 George Washington, a Founding Father and the first president of the…
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