Quote of the day
Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
Patrick Blackett

Born: November 18, 1897
Died: July 13, 1974 (aged 76)
Bio: Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett was an English experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948.
Known for:
- Atomic Weapons and East-West Relations (1956)
- Studies of War: Nuclear and Conventional (1962)
- The gap widens (1970)