Quote of the day
Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
Ronald Ross
Born: May 13, 1857
Died: September 16, 1932 (aged 75)
Bio: Sir Ronald Ross FRCS, was a British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, and the first born outside of Europe.
Known for:
- The Revels of Orsera: A Mediaeval Romance (1920)
- The Prevention of Malaria (1907)
- Fables (1907)