Quote of the day
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
Born: March 8, 1914
Died: December 2, 1987 (aged 73)
Bio: Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich ForMemRS, also known as YaB, was a Russian physicist of Belarusian Jewish ethnicity, who is known for his prolific contributions in cosmology and the physics of thermonuclear and hydrodynamical phenomena.