April 6, 2023
QUOTE
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind’s habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
--All from Isaac Asimov
BIRTHDAYS
1890 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch engineer and businessman, founded Fokker Aircraft
1892 – Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American businessman, founded the Douglas Aircraft Company
1923 – Herb Thomas, Stockcar driver
1937 – Merle Haggard, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
2015 – Ray Charles, Singer-songwriter and conductor
IN MEMORY
1992 – Isaac Asimov, Science fiction writer
1998 – Tammy Wynette, Singer-songwriter
2011 – Gerald Finnerman, Director and cinematographer
2016 – Merle Haggard, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
2017 – Don Rickles, Actor and comedian
IN ON THIS DAY
46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato at the Battle of Thapsus.
1652 –Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope that eventually becomes Cape Town.
1862 – The Battle of Shiloh begins in Tennessee.
1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius.
1917 – The United States declares war on Germany.
1947 – The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.