Michael Dobson |
February 9
Social
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
Фёдор Достое́вский (Fyodor Dostoevsky) (portrait by Vasily Perov)
died February 9, 1881
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 |
November 9
Social
"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all those who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
Carl Sagan, astronomer
born November 9, 1934
Michael Dobson |
November 10
Social
"World history is the world's court."
Friedrich Schiller, poet, historian, and playwright
born November 10, 1759
Michael Dobson |
November 11
Social
"Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress."
Kurt Vonnegut, writer
born November 11, 1922