Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Lewis Fry Richardson
Born: October 11, 1881
Died: September 30, 1953 (aged 71)
Bio: Lewis Fry Richardson, FRS was an English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist and pacifist who pioneered modern mathematical techniques of weather forecasting, and the application of similar techniques to studying the causes of wars and how to prevent them.
Known for:
- Weather Prediction by Numerical Process (1922)
- Statistics of deadly quarrels (1950)
- Collected papers of Lewis Fry Richardson