Thought for the Day...

“In the capacities of mankind there are three degrees: one man understands things by means of his own natural endowments; another understands things when they are explained to him; and a third can neither understand them of himself, nor when they are explained by others."

— Niccolò Machiavelli

 

Birthdays:

 

1828 Jules Verne

1834 Dmitri Mendeleev

1906 Chester Carlson

1612 Samuel Butler

1741 André Grétry: La Fauvette (from Zémire and Azor), and Tandis que tout sommeille (L'amant jaloux)


Miscellany:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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