Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Giorgio de Santillana

Born: May 30, 1902
Died: June 8, 1974 (aged 72)
Bio: Giorgio Diaz de Santillana was an Italian-American philosopher and historian of science, and Professor of the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Known for:
- Hamlet's Mill (1969)
- The crime of Galileo (1955)
- The origins of scientific thought (1961)