Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Joseph Rotblat
Born: November 4, 1908
Died: August 31, 2005 (aged 96)
Bio: Sir Joseph Rotblat was a Polish physicist, a self-described "Pole with a British passport". Rotblat worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project during World War II, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory after the war with Germany ended.
Known for:
- A quest for global peace
- Scientists in the quest for peace (1972)