Quote of the day
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
Leonard Krieger

Born: 1918
Died: 1990 (aged 72)
Bio: Leonard Krieger was an American historian who paid particular attention to Modern Europe, especially Germany. He was influential as an intellectual historian, and particularly for his discussion of historicism.
Known for:
- The German idea of freedom (1957)
- Kings and philosophers, 1689-1789. (1970)
- Time's reasons (1989)
- Ideas and events
- Ranke (1977)