Quote of the day
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
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)








