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Edgar Degas: Self-Portrait "What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming."

Edgar Degas
(07/19/1834 – 09/26/1917)
French painter
Margaret Fuller "I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own."

Margaret Fuller
(05/23/1810 – 07/19/1850)
US writer , great-aunt of Bucky
Charles Horace Mayo "The definition of a specialist as one who knows 'more and more about less and less' is good and true."

Dr. Charles Horace Mayo
(07/19/1865 – 05/26/1939)
US physician (brother of William James Mayo)
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow "The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old."

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
(07/19/1921 – )
US medical physicist
George McGovern "You know, sometimes, when they say you are ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing."

George McGovern
(07/19/1922 – )
US senator (SD) and presidential candidate
Campbell Scott "I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films."

Campbell Scott
(07/19/1961 – )
US actor (son of George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst
Jim Norton "I'm a stand-up comic who hates his own guts."

Jim Norton
(07/19/1968 – )
US comic
"If those absolutely important things are ignored, of how we speciated, how we adapted to the planet, then we're going to lose something precious. There won't be anywhere to go and no place to come home to."

Alan Lomax
(01/31/1915 – 07/19/2002)
US musicologist
Frank McCourt "Happiness is hard to recall. It's just a glow."

Frank McCourt
(08/19/1930 – 07/19/2009)
Irish-American writer (brother of Malachy McCourt)

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