Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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)