Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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)