Quote of the day
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
William John Macquorn Rankine
Born: July 5, 1820
Died: December 24, 1872 (aged 52)
Bio: William John Macquorn Rankine was in the first place a Scottish mechanical engineer and on second place civil engineer, physicist and mathematician.
Known for:
- A manual of applied mechanics (1858)
- Miscellaneous Scientific Papers
- Songs and Fables