If the facts — that is, the behavior of living human beings — are recalcitrant to ... an experiment, the experimenter becomes annoyed and tries to alter the facts to fit the theory, which, in practice, means a kind of vivisection of societies until they become what the theory originally declared that the experiment should have caused them to be.
— Isaiah Berlin
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Today is Wednesday, March 6th, the 66th day of 2024. There are 300 days left in the year. It is National Frozen Food Day and National Dress Day.
On This Day
In 1820, the Missouri Compromise was signed into law by President James Monroe. It allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, and brought Maine into the union as a free state.
In 1836, the siege of the Alamo ended as hundreds of Texas volunteers, including Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, died fighting.
In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in the Dred Scott decision, that the Constitution did not confer citizenship on black people.
In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
In 1899, Felix Hoffmann, a pharmacist working for Bayer, patented a new pain reliever, trademarked as “Aspirin.”
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