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: Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts, test pilot, mechanical engineer, and a United States Air Force pilot.
