Boss (to the new employee): We are very keen on cleanliness. Did you wipe your feet on the mat as you came in?
New employee: Yes, sir.
Boss: We are also keen on truthfulness. There is no mat.
Henry OldenburgDied 5 Sep 1677 (born c. 1618). German-British Secretary of the Royal Society who came to England as a diplomat to see Oliver Cromwell, but stayed instead of returning to Germany. From 1662 he served as the Secretary of the Royal Society, London. His extensive correspondence, and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society journal he founded and editted, spread information on the intellectual activity of the scientists of the Society. Among others, he encouraged Newton, Flamsteed, Malpighi, and Leeuwenhoek. |
