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.
John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune
Born: 1801
Died: August 12, 1851 (aged 50)
Bio: John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune, previously John Elliot Drinkwater, a barrister and law member of the Governor-General's Council, was an Anglo-Indian lawyer and a pioneer in promoting women's education in 19th-century India.
Known for:
- The life of Galileo Galilei
- On Probability (1830)