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: Edwin Ernest Salpeter was an Austrian Australian American astrophysicist. Born to a Jewish family, he emigrated from Austria to Australia while in his teens to escape the Nazis.
