Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Enoch Fitch Burr

Born: October 21, 1818
Died: May 8, 1907 (aged 88)
Bio: Enoch Fitch Burr was a theologian and astronomer who lectured extensively on the relationship between science and religion.
Known for:
- Supreme Things: In Their Practical Relations (1889)
- Pater Mundi (1871)
- Ecce cœlum, or, Parish astronomy (1867)
- Universal Beliefs, Or, The Great Consensus (1887)