Quote of the day
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
John Carew Eccles

Born: January 27, 1903
Died: May 2, 1997 (aged 94)
Bio: Sir John Carew Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
Known for:
- How the Self Controls Its Brain (1994)
- Evolution of the Brain (1989)
- The Physiology of Synapses (1964)
- The human mystery (1979)