Quote of the day
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a world without physicists. And physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Jack Zipes

Born: July 7, 1937 (age 87)
Bio: Jack David Zipes is an American retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota, who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their evolution, and their social and political role in civilizing processes.
Known for:
- Breaking the magic spell (1979)
- The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (2000)
- Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale (1983)