Quote of the day
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Richard Owen
Born: July 20, 1804
Died: December 18, 1892 (aged 88)
Bio: Sir Richard Owen was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Known for:
- On the Nature of Limbs (1849)
- On the anatomy of vertebrates .. (1863)