Quotes from authors that died on Sep 8th
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles
The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.
Willard Libby
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
Francis Quarles
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.
Hermann von Helmholtz
The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter.
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hans Berger 
Rickey Henderson 
George H. Mead 
Michael Chiklis 
Thomas Browne 
Jim Broadbent 
Miguel de Icaza 
Alexander Hamilton Stephens