Quote of the day
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
Anthony Grafton

Born: May 21, 1950 (age 75)
Bio: Anthony Thomas Grafton is one of the foremost historians of early modern Europe and the current Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University. He is also a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and a recipient of the Balzan Prize.
Known for:
- The Footnote: A Curious History (1997)
- Defenders of the text (1991)
- What was History? (2007)
- Forgers and critics (1990)






