Michael Faraday FRS was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. Wikipedia
Born: September 22, 1791, Newington Butts, London, United Kingdom
Died: August 25, 1867, Hampton Court Palace, Molesey, United Kingdom
A day like today in 1867 died a self-taught scientist who inspired Maxwell and Einstein, Michael Faraday. His discoveries brought electricity to households and he was such an amazing lecturer that anyone could understand concepts like combustion or the composition of air, water and gases. Know his story: http://trib.al/Rwr672m
Truman Capote died in Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California on this day in 1984 (aged 59).
"Her high heels, clacking across the marble foyer, made her think of ice cubs rattling in a glass, and the flowers, those autumn crysanthemums in the urn at the entrance, if touched they would shatter, splinter, she was sure, into frozen dust..."
--from "Master Misery" by Truman Capote
⋯⋯--from "Master Misery" by Truman Capote
Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Many of Capote's short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized as literary classics, including the ... Wikipedia
Born: September 30, 1924, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Died: August 25, 1984, Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California, United States
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. Wikipedia
Died: August 25, 1900, Weimar, Germany
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
"Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."
—from THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (1883–1891) by Friedrich Nietzsche
—from THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (1883–1891) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher David Hume died in Edinburgh, Scotland on this day in 1776 (aged 65).
"Here am I who have written on all sorts of subjects calculated to excite hostility, moral, political, and religious, and yet I have no enemies — except, indeed, all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians."
--David Hume
⋯⋯--David Hume
David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. Wikipedia
Born: May 7, 1711, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Died: August 25, 1776, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
Leonard Bernstein was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the US to receive worldwide acclaim.Wikipedia
Born: August 25, 1918, Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States
Died: October 14, 1990, New York City, New York, United States
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
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