Quote of the day
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
Bernard Werber
Born: September 18, 1961 (age 64)
Bio: Bernard Werber is a French science fiction writer, active since the 1990s. He is chiefly recognized for having written the trilogy Les Fourmis, the only one of his novels to have been published in English.
Known for:
- Empire of the Ants (1991)
- Les Thanatonautes (1994)
- The Empire of the Angels (2000)
- Third Humanity (2012)
- Nous les Dieux (2004)







