Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Joel Dorman Steele

Born: May 14, 1836
Died: May 25, 1886 (aged 50)
Bio: Joel Dorman Steele was an American educator. He and his wife Esther were important textbook writers of their period, on subjects including American history, chemistry, human physiology, physics, astronomy, and zoology.
Known for:
- Fourteen Weeks in Chemistry (1869)
- Popular Physics
- Fourteen Weeks in Physics (1878)