Thought for the Day - 5

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. - John A. Wheeler

John Wheeler (1911-?) was a physics professor at Princeton who coined the term "black hole." On his 60th birthday he was honored with a "festschrift" which, if you do not already know, is a book honoring a respected academic (a celebration publication). It contains original contributions by the academic's close colleagues, often including his or her former doctoral students and can be anything from a slim volume to a work in several volumes. Nowadays, a "festschrift" is probably just a series of long e-mails but it's still nice, don't you think? Wheeler's was entitled "Magic Without Magic." This was the only strange new thing I found out today.