Science History
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The scientists and events in science, followed day by day.
14 Nov 1922—#onthisday 🗓️daily BBC radio service began with news read at 6:00pm by Arthur Burrows from 2LO, Marconi House, London. BBC is now over 100 years old! This set the cornerstone of international public #broadcasting.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
14 Nov 1922—#onthisday 🗓️daily BBC radio service began with news read at 6:00pm by Arthur Burrows from 2LO, Marconi House, London. BBC is now over 100 years old! This set the cornerstone of international public #broadcasting.
Read more of today's events at todayinsci.com/11/11_14.htm
Read more of today's events at todayinsci.com/11/11_14.htm
❝Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.❞
— Leo Baekeland, Belgian-US #chemist born #onthisday 🌟14 Nov 1863
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— Leo Baekeland, Belgian-US #chemist born #onthisday 🌟14 Nov 1863
Read more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/B/Baekeland_...
November 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
❝Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.❞
— Leo Baekeland, Belgian-US #chemist born #onthisday 🌟14 Nov 1863
Read more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/B/Baekeland_...
— Leo Baekeland, Belgian-US #chemist born #onthisday 🌟14 Nov 1863
Read more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/B/Baekeland_...
❝The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as the exhibition of his thoughts….❞
— Robert Fulton, U.S. inventor, born #onthisday 🌟14 Nov 1765.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/F/Fulton_Rob...
— Robert Fulton, U.S. inventor, born #onthisday 🌟14 Nov 1765.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
❝The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as the exhibition of his thoughts….❞
— Robert Fulton, U.S. inventor, born #onthisday 🌟14 Nov 1765.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/F/Fulton_Rob...
— Robert Fulton, U.S. inventor, born #onthisday 🌟14 Nov 1765.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/F/Fulton_Rob...
❝We must preach up traveling … as the first, second, and third requisites for a modern geologist, in the present adolescent stage of the science.❞
— Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist, born #onthisday 🌟14 Nov 1797.
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— Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist, born #onthisday 🌟14 Nov 1797.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
❝We must preach up traveling … as the first, second, and third requisites for a modern geologist, in the present adolescent stage of the science.❞
— Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist, born #onthisday 🌟14 Nov 1797.
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— Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist, born #onthisday 🌟14 Nov 1797.
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❝Astronomy is a science in which you are not able to touch anything you study.❞
— Allan Sandage, American astronomer, died #onthisday ✝️ 13 Nov 2010.
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— Allan Sandage, American astronomer, died #onthisday ✝️ 13 Nov 2010.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
❝Astronomy is a science in which you are not able to touch anything you study.❞
— Allan Sandage, American astronomer, died #onthisday ✝️ 13 Nov 2010.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/S/Sandage_Al...
— Allan Sandage, American astronomer, died #onthisday ✝️ 13 Nov 2010.
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❝Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.❞
— Abraham Flexner, American educator, was born #onthisday 🌟13 Nov 1866.
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— Abraham Flexner, American educator, was born #onthisday 🌟13 Nov 1866.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
❝Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.❞
— Abraham Flexner, American educator, was born #onthisday 🌟13 Nov 1866.
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— Abraham Flexner, American educator, was born #onthisday 🌟13 Nov 1866.
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On 12 Nov 1968, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a 1928 Arkansas law that criminalized the teaching of evolution in public schools. Arkansas’ law violated the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. The law favored the doctrine of human origins given in Genesis.
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See todayinsci.com/11/11_12.htm...
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
On 12 Nov 1968, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a 1928 Arkansas law that criminalized the teaching of evolution in public schools. Arkansas’ law violated the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. The law favored the doctrine of human origins given in Genesis.
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See todayinsci.com/11/11_12.htm...
12 Nov 1974—#onthisday 🗓️ a salmon found in the River Thames, London, was the first since 1833. It indicated improving water quality since the appalling Victorian industrial and sewage pollution.
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Read more about this and other science events today at todayinsci.com/11/11_12.htm...
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
12 Nov 1974—#onthisday 🗓️ a salmon found in the River Thames, London, was the first since 1833. It indicated improving water quality since the appalling Victorian industrial and sewage pollution.
Read more about this and other science events today at todayinsci.com/11/11_12.htm...
Read more about this and other science events today at todayinsci.com/11/11_12.htm...
❝One's instinct is at first to try and get rid of a discrepancy, but I believe that…to be a mistake. What one ought to do is to magnify a small discrepancy❞ [and examine it.]
— Lord Raleigh, English physicist, born #onthisday 🌟12 Nov 1842.
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— Lord Raleigh, English physicist, born #onthisday 🌟12 Nov 1842.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
❝One's instinct is at first to try and get rid of a discrepancy, but I believe that…to be a mistake. What one ought to do is to magnify a small discrepancy❞ [and examine it.]
— Lord Raleigh, English physicist, born #onthisday 🌟12 Nov 1842.
See his #quotes at todayinsci.com/R/Rayleigh_L...
— Lord Raleigh, English physicist, born #onthisday 🌟12 Nov 1842.
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❝The scientist…creates more and more questions, never fewer.…The measure of our intellectual maturity…is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.❞
—Gordon Allport, U.S. psychologist born #onthisday 🌟11 Nov 1897.
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—Gordon Allport, U.S. psychologist born #onthisday 🌟11 Nov 1897.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
❝The scientist…creates more and more questions, never fewer.…The measure of our intellectual maturity…is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.❞
—Gordon Allport, U.S. psychologist born #onthisday 🌟11 Nov 1897.
See #quotes at todayinsci.com/A/Allport_Go...
—Gordon Allport, U.S. psychologist born #onthisday 🌟11 Nov 1897.
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❝Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.❞
— Martin Fischer, German-American physician, born #onthisday 🌟10 Nov 1879.
Read over a hundred of his insightful epigrams and #quotes at todayinsci.com/F/Fischer_Ma...
— Martin Fischer, German-American physician, born #onthisday 🌟10 Nov 1879.
Read over a hundred of his insightful epigrams and #quotes at todayinsci.com/F/Fischer_Ma...
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
❝Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.❞
— Martin Fischer, German-American physician, born #onthisday 🌟10 Nov 1879.
Read over a hundred of his insightful epigrams and #quotes at todayinsci.com/F/Fischer_Ma...
— Martin Fischer, German-American physician, born #onthisday 🌟10 Nov 1879.
Read over a hundred of his insightful epigrams and #quotes at todayinsci.com/F/Fischer_Ma...
❝#Geology as an open-air pursuit affords an admirable training in habits of observation,…and thus gives a new charm to scenery which may be already replete with attractions.❞
— Archibald Geikie, Scottish geologist, ✝️ died #onthisday 10 Nov 1924.
See his #quotes at todayinsci.com/G/Geikie_Arc...
— Archibald Geikie, Scottish geologist, ✝️ died #onthisday 10 Nov 1924.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
❝#Geology as an open-air pursuit affords an admirable training in habits of observation,…and thus gives a new charm to scenery which may be already replete with attractions.❞
— Archibald Geikie, Scottish geologist, ✝️ died #onthisday 10 Nov 1924.
See his #quotes at todayinsci.com/G/Geikie_Arc...
— Archibald Geikie, Scottish geologist, ✝️ died #onthisday 10 Nov 1924.
See his #quotes at todayinsci.com/G/Geikie_Arc...
Apologies that the "8 Nov National Cappuccino Day" post was published a day late. Webmaster went to sleep before finishing it! Yet, not too late for you to still enjoy the science limerick and art provided by A.I.
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Apologies that the "8 Nov National Cappuccino Day" post was published a day late. Webmaster went to sleep before finishing it! Yet, not too late for you to still enjoy the science limerick and art provided by A.I.
🗓️ 8 Nov is National Cappuccino Day.
A Cappuccino gives neurons a spark,
When morning still feels rather dark—
Caffeine blocks the gate,
Of adenosine’s fate,
And sleepiness fades from the mark!
— Limerick by A.I.
See more #Coffee #quotes at todayinsci.com/QuotationsCa...
A Cappuccino gives neurons a spark,
When morning still feels rather dark—
Caffeine blocks the gate,
Of adenosine’s fate,
And sleepiness fades from the mark!
— Limerick by A.I.
See more #Coffee #quotes at todayinsci.com/QuotationsCa...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
🗓️ 8 Nov is National Cappuccino Day.
A Cappuccino gives neurons a spark,
When morning still feels rather dark—
Caffeine blocks the gate,
Of adenosine’s fate,
And sleepiness fades from the mark!
— Limerick by A.I.
See more #Coffee #quotes at todayinsci.com/QuotationsCa...
A Cappuccino gives neurons a spark,
When morning still feels rather dark—
Caffeine blocks the gate,
Of adenosine’s fate,
And sleepiness fades from the mark!
— Limerick by A.I.
See more #Coffee #quotes at todayinsci.com/QuotationsCa...
❝The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist-deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.❞
—Carl Sagan, astronomer, born #onthisday 🌟9 Nov 1934.
No, it’s not billions and billions—but scores and scores more #quotes at todayinsci.com/S/Sagan_Carl... #astronomy
—Carl Sagan, astronomer, born #onthisday 🌟9 Nov 1934.
No, it’s not billions and billions—but scores and scores more #quotes at todayinsci.com/S/Sagan_Carl... #astronomy
November 9, 2025 at 7:06 AM
❝The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist-deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.❞
—Carl Sagan, astronomer, born #onthisday 🌟9 Nov 1934.
No, it’s not billions and billions—but scores and scores more #quotes at todayinsci.com/S/Sagan_Carl... #astronomy
—Carl Sagan, astronomer, born #onthisday 🌟9 Nov 1934.
No, it’s not billions and billions—but scores and scores more #quotes at todayinsci.com/S/Sagan_Carl... #astronomy
❝I never quite lost the feeling that lecturing is a kind of sacrificial slaughter of helpless victims.❞
— Hans Cloos, German geologist, born #onthisday 🌟 8 Nov 1885.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/C/Cloos_Hans...
— Hans Cloos, German geologist, born #onthisday 🌟 8 Nov 1885.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/C/Cloos_Hans...
November 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
❝I never quite lost the feeling that lecturing is a kind of sacrificial slaughter of helpless victims.❞
— Hans Cloos, German geologist, born #onthisday 🌟 8 Nov 1885.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/C/Cloos_Hans...
— Hans Cloos, German geologist, born #onthisday 🌟 8 Nov 1885.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/C/Cloos_Hans...
❝It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.❞
—Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon, world's first human #heart #transplant surgeon, born #onthisday 🌟8 Nov 1922.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/B/Barnard_Ch...
—Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon, world's first human #heart #transplant surgeon, born #onthisday 🌟8 Nov 1922.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/B/Barnard_Ch...
November 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
❝It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.❞
—Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon, world's first human #heart #transplant surgeon, born #onthisday 🌟8 Nov 1922.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/B/Barnard_Ch...
—Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon, world's first human #heart #transplant surgeon, born #onthisday 🌟8 Nov 1922.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/B/Barnard_Ch...
❝The history of science is the real history of mankind.❞
— Emil Dubois-Reymond, German physiologist, born #onthisday 🌟7 Nov 1818.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/D/DuBoisReym...
— Emil Dubois-Reymond, German physiologist, born #onthisday 🌟7 Nov 1818.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
❝The history of science is the real history of mankind.❞
— Emil Dubois-Reymond, German physiologist, born #onthisday 🌟7 Nov 1818.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/D/DuBoisReym...
— Emil Dubois-Reymond, German physiologist, born #onthisday 🌟7 Nov 1818.
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❝There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.❞
— Marie Curie, Polish-French chemist, born #onthisday 🌟7 Nov 1867.
See more of her #quotes at todayinsci.com/C/Curie_Mari...
— Marie Curie, Polish-French chemist, born #onthisday 🌟7 Nov 1867.
See more of her #quotes at todayinsci.com/C/Curie_Mari...
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
❝There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.❞
— Marie Curie, Polish-French chemist, born #onthisday 🌟7 Nov 1867.
See more of her #quotes at todayinsci.com/C/Curie_Mari...
— Marie Curie, Polish-French chemist, born #onthisday 🌟7 Nov 1867.
See more of her #quotes at todayinsci.com/C/Curie_Mari...
On 6 Nov 2012 — #onthisday 🗓️ 4000 write-in votes were cast for Charles Darwin to protest against unopposed anti-science fundamentalist Georgia Republican, Paul Broun.
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Read his eye-rolling #quotes at todayinsci.com/B/Broun_Paul...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
On 6 Nov 2012 — #onthisday 🗓️ 4000 write-in votes were cast for Charles Darwin to protest against unopposed anti-science fundamentalist Georgia Republican, Paul Broun.
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Details todayinsci.com/11/11_06.htm
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6 Nov 1217—#onthisday 🗓️King Henry III issued the ‘Charter of the Forest’ returning to the common man certain rights to the former Royal Forest to use, including access, grazing, collecting firewood, etc.
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See more events on this day at todayinsci.com/11/11_06.htm
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
6 Nov 1217—#onthisday 🗓️King Henry III issued the ‘Charter of the Forest’ returning to the common man certain rights to the former Royal Forest to use, including access, grazing, collecting firewood, etc.
See more events on this day at todayinsci.com/11/11_06.htm
See more events on this day at todayinsci.com/11/11_06.htm
❝The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena,… but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove.❞
— David George Hogarth, English archaeologist, died #onthisday ✝️6 Nov 1927.
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— David George Hogarth, English archaeologist, died #onthisday ✝️6 Nov 1927.
See another of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/H/Hogarth_Da...
November 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
❝The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena,… but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove.❞
— David George Hogarth, English archaeologist, died #onthisday ✝️6 Nov 1927.
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— David George Hogarth, English archaeologist, died #onthisday ✝️6 Nov 1927.
See another of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/H/Hogarth_Da...
❝The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other.❞
— JBS Haldane, English geneticist, born #onthisday 🌟5 Nov 1892.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/H/Haldane_JB...
— JBS Haldane, English geneticist, born #onthisday 🌟5 Nov 1892.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/H/Haldane_JB...
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
❝The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other.❞
— JBS Haldane, English geneticist, born #onthisday 🌟5 Nov 1892.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/H/Haldane_JB...
— JBS Haldane, English geneticist, born #onthisday 🌟5 Nov 1892.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/H/Haldane_JB...
❝Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.❞
— JBS Haldane, born #onthisday 🌟5 Nov 1892.
See more at his #quotes page todayinsci.com/H/Haldane_JB...
— JBS Haldane, born #onthisday 🌟5 Nov 1892.
See more at his #quotes page todayinsci.com/H/Haldane_JB...
November 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
❝Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.❞
— JBS Haldane, born #onthisday 🌟5 Nov 1892.
See more at his #quotes page todayinsci.com/H/Haldane_JB...
— JBS Haldane, born #onthisday 🌟5 Nov 1892.
See more at his #quotes page todayinsci.com/H/Haldane_JB...
❝Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.❞
— Lancelot Law Whyte, Scottish philosopher and science writer, was born #onthisday 🌟4 Nov 1896.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/W/Whyte_Lanc...
— Lancelot Law Whyte, Scottish philosopher and science writer, was born #onthisday 🌟4 Nov 1896.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/W/Whyte_Lanc...
November 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
❝Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.❞
— Lancelot Law Whyte, Scottish philosopher and science writer, was born #onthisday 🌟4 Nov 1896.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/W/Whyte_Lanc...
— Lancelot Law Whyte, Scottish philosopher and science writer, was born #onthisday 🌟4 Nov 1896.
See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/W/Whyte_Lanc...