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.
Derek Barton

Born: September 8, 1918
Died: March 16, 1998 (aged 79)
Bio: Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton PhD was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969.






