Quote of the day
Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
Joseph Rotblat
Born: November 4, 1908
Died: August 31, 2005 (aged 96)
Bio: Sir Joseph Rotblat was a Polish physicist, a self-described "Pole with a British passport". Rotblat worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project during World War II, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory after the war with Germany ended.
Known for:
- A quest for global peace
- Scientists in the quest for peace (1972)