Quote of the day
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
James Phinney Baxter III
Born: February 15, 1893
Died: June 17, 1975 (aged 82)
Bio: James Phinney Baxter III was an American historian, educator, and academic, who won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Scientists Against Time. He was also the author of The Introduction of the Ironclad Warship.