"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living."
Births
1854 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (source of above quote)
Deaths
1768 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist
1793 - John Michell, English scientist
1798 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist
1916 - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician
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