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.
Donald Putnam Abbott

Born: October 14, 1920
Died: January 18, 1986 (aged 65)
Bio: Donald Putnam Abbott was an invertebrate zoologist and Professor of Biology at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University from 1950 through 1982. He earned his Ph.D. under S.F. Light and Ralph Smith at the University of California, Berkeley.






