Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Christian de Duve
Born: October 2, 1917
Died: May 4, 2013 (aged 95)
Bio: Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist.
Known for:
- Vital Dust: Life as a Cosmic Imperative (1995)
- Life evolving (2002)
- A guided tour of the living cell (1984)