Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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)