Quote of the day
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Bas van Fraassen

Born: April 5, 1941 (age 84)
Bio: Bastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University and the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University, noted for his seminal contributions to philosophy of science.
Known for:
- The scientific image (1980)
- Scientific representation (2008)
- The Empirical Stance (2002)
- Laws and symmetry (1989)
- Quantum mechanics (1991)