Friday, April 5, 2013

[1614 - Pocahontas, daughter of chief of Powhatan Indians, marries
English tobacco planter John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia]

   
[1856 - Booker T.(Taliaferro) Washington, educator, leader, author, born in Hale's Ford, Virginia]

   
[1858 - Washington Atlee Burpee, botanist, born in Sheffield, New Brunswick]

          
[1900 - Spencer (Bonaventure) Tracy, Academy Award-winning actor, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin]

      
[1901 - Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg), Tony, Emmy and Academy Award-winning actor, born in Macon, Georgia]

      
[1908 - Bette (Ruth Elizabeth) Davis, Academy and Emmy Award-winning actress, born in Lowell, Massachusetts]

[1909 - Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli, film producer, born in New York City]

   
[1916 - (Eldred) Gregory Peck, Academy Award-winning actor, born in La Jolla, California]

   
[1917 - Robert Albert Bloch, writer, born in Chicago]

[1949 - Dr. Judith A. Resnik, electrical engineer,
astronaut, born in Akron, Ohio]

   
[1976 - Howard Hughes, billionaire, aviator, dies]

On Being a Skeptic

Being a skeptic means one reserves the right to question and reject any assertion, no matter the source. It also means not becoming so wedded to any belief that one loses the ability to revise or discard it in the face of new evidence or changed conditions.

There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche

William's Whimsical Words:

It is ever so more convenient to simply accept a belief system based on faith, and never question it.

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