Quote of the day
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Joseph Silk

Born: December 3, 1942 (age 82)
Bio: Joseph Ivor Silk was the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford from 1999 to September 2011. He was educated at Tottenham County School and went on to study Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
Known for:
- A short history of the universe (1994)
- The Infinite Cosmos (2006)
- The Big Bang (1980)
- Horizons of Cosmology (2009)
- Cosmic enigmas (1994)