Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Pierre Louis Maupertuis
Born: July 17, 1698
Died: July 27, 1759 (aged 61)
Bio: Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Prussian Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great.