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.
Fang Lizhi
Born: February 12, 1936
Died: April 6, 2012 (aged 76)
Bio: Fang Lizhi was a Chinese astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986 87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.