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

Born: June 20, 1923
Died: May 12, 2015 (aged 91)
Bio: Peter Gay was an American historian, educator and author. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers.
Known for:
- Freud: A Life For Our Time (1988)
- Modernism: The Lure of Heresy (2007)
- Weimar culture: the outsider as insider (1968)