Quote of the day
It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Karl Taylor Compton
Born: September 14, 1887
Died: June 22, 1954 (aged 66)
Bio: Karl Taylor Compton was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1930 to 1948.
Known for:
- The Battle of the Alchemists
- Scientists Face the World of 1942 (1942)