Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
J. L. B. Smith

Born: October 26, 1897
Died: January 7, 1968 (aged 70)
Bio: James Leonard Brierley Smith, known as J. L. B. Smith, was a South African ichthyologist, organic chemist and university professor. He was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought long extinct.
Known for:
- Smith's Sea fishes (1965)
- Food for Hungry Souls (1850)
- Christ Is All!