Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: October 1, 1914 - February 28, 2004
Birthday: October 1
Death: February 28
The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time. Answering criticism that the book for which he won a Pulitzer Prize was written in the years he had been employed at the Smithsonian. He specified that did not write on the premises there, but only at home outside of working hours.
topic: Book, Home, Writing, Vagrants, Smithsonian
