“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries that the more public provisions were… Read more »
“One day you will get to an age that you will wonder what your parents were really like and how they thought and you will want to really understand why they did what they did and how their experiences taught them to view the world in the way that it did. You would like to talk things over as you… Read more »
“Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a… Read more »
The illustration is of Moses leading Israel across the Red Sea with Pharaoh’s army in pursuit.
In the last update, I was still trying to locate and stop the leaks in my in-floor heating plumbing.
Photo of my shop taken with my telephone with natural lighting.
Here’s hoping 1985 is even better!