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12 Nov 1974—#onthisday 🗓️ a salmon found in the River Thames, London, was the first since 1833. It indicated improving water quality since the appalling Victorian industrial and sewage pollution.

Read more about this and other science events today at todayinsci.com/11/11_12.htm...
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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❝One's instinct is at first to try and get rid of a discrepancy, but I believe that…to be a mistake. What one ought to do is to magnify a small discrepancy❞ [and examine it.]
— Lord Raleigh, English physicist, born #onthisday 🌟12 Nov 1842.

See his #quotes at todayinsci.com/R/Rayleigh_L...
November 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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❝The scientist…creates more and more questions, never fewer.…The measure of our intellectual maturity…is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.❞
—Gordon Allport, U.S. psychologist born #onthisday 🌟11 Nov 1897.

See #quotes at todayinsci.com/A/Allport_Go...
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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❝Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.❞
— Martin Fischer, German-American physician, born #onthisday 🌟10 Nov 1879.

Read over a hundred of his insightful epigrams and #quotes at todayinsci.com/F/Fischer_Ma...
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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❝#Geology as an open-air pursuit affords an admirable training in habits of observation,…and thus gives a new charm to scenery which may be already replete with attractions.❞
— Archibald Geikie, Scottish geologist, ✝️ died #onthisday 10 Nov 1924.

See his #quotes at todayinsci.com/G/Geikie_Arc...
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Apologies that the "8 Nov National Cappuccino Day" post was published a day late. Webmaster went to sleep before finishing it! Yet, not too late for you to still enjoy the science limerick and art provided by A.I.
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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🗓️ 8 Nov is National Cappuccino Day.
A Cappuccino gives neurons a spark,
When morning still feels rather dark—
Caffeine blocks the gate,
Of adenosine’s fate,
And sleepiness fades from the mark!
— Limerick by A.I.

See more #Coffee #quotes at todayinsci.com/QuotationsCa...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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❝The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist-deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.❞
—Carl Sagan, astronomer, born #onthisday 🌟9 Nov 1934.

No, it’s not billions and billions—but scores and scores more #quotes at todayinsci.com/S/Sagan_Carl... #astronomy
November 9, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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❝I never quite lost the feeling that lecturing is a kind of sacrificial slaughter of helpless victims.❞
— Hans Cloos, German geologist, born #onthisday 🌟 8 Nov 1885.

See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/C/Cloos_Hans...
November 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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❝It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.❞
—Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon, world's first human #heart #transplant surgeon, born #onthisday 🌟8 Nov 1922.

See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/B/Barnard_Ch...
November 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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❝The history of science is the real history of mankind.❞
— Emil Dubois-Reymond, German physiologist, born #onthisday 🌟7 Nov 1818.

See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/D/DuBoisReym...
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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❝There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.❞
— Marie Curie, Polish-French chemist, born #onthisday 🌟7 Nov 1867.

See more of her #quotes at todayinsci.com/C/Curie_Mari...
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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On 6 Nov 2012 — #onthisday 🗓️ 4000 write-in votes were cast for Charles Darwin to protest against unopposed anti-science fundamentalist Georgia Republican, Paul Broun.

Details todayinsci.com/11/11_06.htm

Read his eye-rolling #quotes at todayinsci.com/B/Broun_Paul...
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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6 Nov 1217—#onthisday 🗓️King Henry III issued the ‘Charter of the Forest’ returning to the common man certain rights to the former Royal Forest to use, including access, grazing, collecting firewood, etc.

See more events on this day at todayinsci.com/11/11_06.htm
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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❝The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena,… but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove.❞
— David George Hogarth, English archaeologist, died #onthisday ✝️6 Nov 1927.

See another of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/H/Hogarth_Da...
November 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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❝The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other.❞
— JBS Haldane, English geneticist, born #onthisday 🌟5 Nov 1892.

See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/H/Haldane_JB...
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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❝Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.❞
— JBS Haldane, born #onthisday 🌟5 Nov 1892.

See more at his #quotes page todayinsci.com/H/Haldane_JB...
November 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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❝Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.❞
— Lancelot Law Whyte, Scottish philosopher and science writer, was born #onthisday 🌟4 Nov 1896.

See more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/W/Whyte_Lanc...
November 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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❝If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea before it has been completely stated.❞
—Wilfred Trotter, English surgeon, born #onthisday 🌟3 Nov 1872, who originated the term ❝herd instinct❞ (1914)

Brief bio at todayinsci.com/11/11_03.htm...
November 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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❝The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein.❞—Wilfred Trotter, English surgeon, born #onthisday 🌟3 Nov 1872.

See his #quotes at todayinsci.com/T/Trotter_Wi...
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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❝A new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science.❞
—Wilfred Trotter, English surgeon, born #onthisday 3 Nov 1872.

See his #quotes at todayinsci.com/T/Trotter_Wi...
November 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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3 Nov 1957 — #onthisday 🗓️The first living creature, a female dog named Laika, was launched into space by the Soviet Union.

— Read more details, and some truth revealed in 2002, at todayinsci.com/Events/Rocke...
November 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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❝Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.”
— Peter Debye, Dutch-American physical chemist, died #onthisday ✝️2 Nov 1966.

See more science events on this day at todayinsci.com/11/11_02.htm
November 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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❝The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained…by a set of laws which are amazing in their simplicity.❞
— Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, born #onthisday 🌟2 Nov 1932.

See this #quote in full at todayinsci.com/S/Schwartz_M...
November 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Sunday 2 Nov 2025—#onthisday 🗓️Daylight Saving Time (DST) ended in the U.S. at 2 am.

The dates for changing to and from DST were last changed by Congress on 4 Nov 2007. Read why at todayinsci.com/11/11_04.htm...

Also read many more science events for 2 Nov at todayinsci.com/11/11_02.htm
November 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM