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.
Bio: Edward Williams Morley was an American scientist famous for his path-breaking measurements of the atomic weight of oxygen, and for the Michelson Morley experiment.
