Tag: science
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February 2, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Whatever you do, don’t doubt yourself because of others. That’s the only thing I want to impress upon you, as strongly as I can.” — Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 1669 Louis Marchand, French Baroque organist and composer. Plein jeu in c, and Chaconne 1875 (Friedrich-Max) “Fritz” Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer. Liebesleid,…
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February 1, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.” — Yevgeny Zamyatin BIRTHDAYS: 1550 John Napier, Scottish mathematician (the 8th Laird of Merchiston, near Edinburgh) best known for inventing logarithms, one of the most important mathematical…
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January 31, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Those who alwaysknow what’s bestarea universal pest.” — Piet Hein BIRTHDAYS: 1517 Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer and musical theorist., born in Chioggia. Bicinia 6 y 8 modo 1797 Franz Schubert, one of the most gifted and prolific composers of the early Romantic era, often seen as the bridge between Classical and…
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January 30, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Today’s environment is beginning to threaten today’s organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design… The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction.” — Douglas Engelbart…
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January 29, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.” — Thomas Paine BIRTHDAYS: 1737 Thomas Paine, English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary,…
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January 28, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Beware the man of a single book.” — Thomas Aquinas BIRTHDAYS: 1225 Thomas Aquinas, also known as Saint Thomas Aquinas or the Angelic Doctor, was an Italian Dominican friar, priest, philosopher, and theologian widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in Western philosophy and Catholic theology. 1714 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle,…
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January 27, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Mars is there, waiting to be reached.” — Buzz Aldrin BIRTHDAYS: 1679 Jean-François de Troy, French painter (Rococo style). 1756 Mozart, widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in Western music history. Symphony No. 41 Jupiter 1832 Lewis Carroll, English writer, mathematician, logician, photographer, and Anglican deacon whose whimsical imagination…
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January 26, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you find science boring, you are learning it from a wrong teacher.” — Richard Feynman BIRTHDAYS: 1786 Benjamin Haydon, British painter. 1884 Roy Chapman Andrews, American scientist and explorer (found 1st known dinosaur eggs, director of the American Museum of Natural History) 1918 Philip José Farmer, American sci-fi writer. 1921…
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January 25, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.” — Joseph-Louis Lagrange BIRTHDAYS: 1459 Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian organist and composer, born in…
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January 24, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong” — Walter E. Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1776 Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German Romantic writer, judge and composer (Undine), born in Königsberg, Kingdom…
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