Quote of the day
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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)