Quote of the day
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
Sydney J. Hickson

Born: 1859
Died: February 6, 1940 (aged 81)
Bio: Sydney John Hickson, FRS, was a British zoologist known for his groundbreaking research in evolution, embryology, genetics, and systematics.
Known for:
- The Fauna of the Deep Blue Sea
- The Fauna of the Deep Sea (1893)
- The Story of Life in the Seas
- The Stylasterina of the Siboga Expedition (1905)






