Feb Born Quotes

Cotton Mather was born Feb. 12, 1663 in Boston, Massachusetts where he would spend all of his life until his death on Feb. 13, 1728. The son of the well-known preacher and academic Increase Mather, Cotton exhibited unusual intellectual gifts. At 12 he entered Harvard, receiving his MA at the age of 18 from the hands of his father, who was president of the college at the time. He preached his first sermon in his father’s church in August 1680 and was formally ordained in 1685 becoming his father’s colleague. While believing in witchcraft, he sided with Samuel Willard on trying to bar the legality of spectral evidence.

A writer can be born with a deftness in the word department, but it will do him no good unless he is born with a sensitivity to people.

He was born Feb. 10, 1893, in New York’s Lower East Side. At 17 he learned to play the piano, beginning his musical career in the beer gardens of old Coney Island, picking out tunes for $25 a week. In Terry Walsh’s club he played while a waiter named Eddie Cantor sang. By 1916 he had assembled a small Dixieland combo for the Club Alamo in Harlem. There he met Eddie Jackson, who was to become his partner. In 1923 he and Jackson opened the Club Durant and acquired a third partner, Lou Clayton. The club thrived, but the partners ran afoul of the law, and the business was closed by Prohibition agents. But Clayton, Jackson, and Durante arrived on Broadway in 1928.

The Germans ignored Einstein and developed an approach to gravity based on quantum theory. Don’t forget that Einstein physics, relativity physics, with its big-picture view of the universe, represented Jewish science to the Nazis. Germany was where quantum mechanics was born. The Germans were looking at gravity from a different perspective than everyone else. Maybe that gave them answers to things the pro-relativity scientists hadn’t even thought of. In a message to O’Riley on Feb 18, 2005, I speculated that: Theoretical Physics split off in two directions in the 1930s. One fork in the road followed the path of relativity; the other followed the path of quantum mechanics. Because the Germans dismissed relativity as ‘Jewish physics,’ their scientists followed the quantum path, which gave them a head start on things that their British and American counterparts were not attuned to – except, perhaps, for Townsend Brown and a few of his colleagues in the ‘black’ realm. Does that sound about right? Within a few minutes O’Riley replied: Not just about right, dead on right. I feel like Henry Higgins: “By George, I think he’s got it!” Don’t know if you recognize that scene but the same amount of dancing around the den is occurring here. Thank you. I believe “You’ve got it!