Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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)