Quote of the day
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Aleš Hrdlička
Born: March 29, 1869
Died: September 5, 1943 (aged 74)
Bio: Aleš Hrdlička was a Czech anthropologist who lived in the United States after his family had moved there in 1881. He was born in Humpolec, Bohemia and given a baptismal name "Alois", which he later changed into a more patriotic form "Aleš".







