Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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)