Quote of the day
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Marjorie Hope Nicolson

Born: 1894
Died: March 9, 1981 (aged 87)
Bio: Marjorie Hope Nicolson was an American literary scholar. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1955.
Known for:
- Newton demands the muse (1946)
- Science and Imagination (1956)
- A reader's guide to John Milton (1963)