Tag: science
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April 7, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.” — Wordsworth BIRTHDAYS: 1613 Gerrit Dou, Dutch baroque painter. 1622 Louise Hollandine, Abbess and painter. 1694 Coelestin Praelisauer, German organist, composer, and monk, baptized in Kötzting, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. 1699 Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, German choirmaster and composer, baptized…
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April 6, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid” — James D. Watson BIRTHDAYS: 1651 André Dacier, French classical scholar and translator…
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April 5, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any gaseous constituent, but on minute organisms suspended in it, which owed their energy to their vitality, it occurred to me that decomposition in the injured part…
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April 4, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.” — Hilaire Belloc BIRTHDAYS: 1648 Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born British sculptor and woodcarver. 1752 Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli,…
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April 3, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “And that young brown boys and girls can look at me and go, “Hey, he looks like me and he’s doing what?” And that’s great. I love that. But I also hope we are pushing the other direction that one day we don’t have to talk about these first. That one…
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April 2, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.” — Alfred Adler BIRTHDAYS: 1632 Georg Caspar Weckler, German organist and composer, baptized in Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. Fuge in D Dorian 1805 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays,…
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April 1, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting BIRTHDAYS: 1852 Edward Austin Abbey, American painter. 1868 Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac). 1873 Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Piano Concerto No.…
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March 31, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.” — Viktor E. Frankl BIRTHDAYS: 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer and musician of the…
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March 30, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” — Sir Winston Churchill BIRTHDAYS: 1510 Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish blind organist and composer, born in Castrillo Mota de Judíos, Spain. Pavana con su glosa, and Diferencias sobre la Gallarda Milanesa,…
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March 29, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I am not young enough to know everything.” — Oscar Wilde BIRTHDAYS: 1902 William Walton, British composer. Crown Imperial. MISCELLANEOUS: ATTENTION STARGAZERS. Night sky for March 27-29 — See the moon glow with the heart of a stellar lion BEFORE THE NEXT LOCK DOWN (INCLUDING VIOLATING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM…
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