Michael Dobson |
November 8
Social
"Genius does what it must, talent does what it can."
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, statesman and poet
born November 8, 1831
Michael Dobson |
May 4
Social
"Not too far from the invention of fire...we must rank the invention of doubt."
Thomas Huxley, biologist
born May 4, 1825
Michael Dobson |
May 5
Social
"Everything in the universe relates to the number 5, one way or another, given enough ingenuity on the part of the interpreter."
"The Law of 5," Principia Discordia
for 5/5
Michael Dobson |
May 6
Social
"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!"
Orson Welles, actor and director, as Harry Lime in "The Third Man"
born May 6, 1915
Michael Dobson |
May 7
Social
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
David Hume, philosopher
born May 7 [O.S. April 26], 1711