Lessons from History
History is rich, and includes everything except
today and our tomorrows. Hopefully we learn as we go . . .
George Santayana, a Spanish American philosopher and writer, famously
said: "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.
When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is
set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among
savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned
to repeat it."
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The Story of Marie Curie and Toothpaste - 2003
Marie Curie (1867-1934), physicist, chemist and pioneer in the field of radioactivity
"Considering the importance of what he had found, Becquerel did a
very strange thing: he turned the matter over to a graduate student
for investigation. Fortunately the student was a recent emigre from
Poland named Marie Curie. Working with her new husband, Pierre,
Curie found that certain kinds of rocks poured out constant and
extraordinary amounts of energy, yet without diminishing in size or
changing in any detectable way.
. . . Marie Curie dubbed the effect
'radioactivity.' . . . In 1903 the Curies and Becquerel were jointly
awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. (Marie Curie would win a second
prize, in chemistry, in 1911, the only person to win in both chemistry
and physics.)"
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