Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Leopold Infeld
Born: August 20, 1898
Died: January 15, 1968 (aged 69)
Bio: Leopold Infeld was a Polish physicist who worked mainly in Poland and Canada. He was a Rockefeller fellow at Cambridge University and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Known for:
- The Evolution of Physics (1938)
- Quest
- Motion and relativity (1960)