Quote of the Day for 2016-09-04

"And so shall your garden grow; from the rich soil of the humanities it will rise up and unfold in beauty in the pure air of the spirit."

— Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) Kindergarten Chats, chapter 4 (1918)

Academy by Lamplight by Joseph Wright of Derby (1770)

Quote of the Day for 2016-06-01

"Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education."

— Paul Erdős (1913-1996) Quoted by Paul Hoffman in "The Man Who Loves Only Numbers," The Atlantic (November 1987)

Banky's Videographer at 402 Main St. (corner of 4th St.), Park City, Utah (2010)

Quote of the Day for 2016-05-05

"Try to learn something about everything, and everything about something."

— Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) A favorite maxim, inscribed on his memorial in Ealing (1902)

Alma Mater statue (Athena) on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University (1904)