New Orts #74

June 15 MMXXV

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

A good model will not account for quite all the data,-- for some of the data are bound to be wrong.
— Francis Crick (1916-2004), Nobel prize winner (re structure of DNA)

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

from the Music Trivia department:
- Tchaikovsky was born on Brahms' seventh birthday.
- Prokofiev and Stalin died on the same day.
- Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831), composer (student of Haydn) and piano maker, was the 24th of 38 children in his family. Or so some say. Other sources say he was the 8th and last child of his father’s first marriage, and he acquired eight half-siblings from his father’s second marriage.