Quote of the day
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
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)