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.
Eric F. Wieschaus
Born: June 8, 1947 (age 78)
Bio: Eric Francis Wieschaus is an American developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner.