Quote of the day
Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How tasteless then whatever can be given!
Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise, of health.
Charles Coulston Gillispie

Born: August 6, 1918
Died: October 6, 2015 (aged 97)
Bio: Charles Coulston Gillispie was an American historian of science, and the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History of Science, Emeritus at Princeton University.
Known for:
- Edge of Objectivity (1960)
- Science and polity in France (1980)
- Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827 (1997)