Ocupation: Baron Byron
Life: January 22, 1788 - April 19, 1824
Birthday: January 22
Death: April 19
What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.
source: Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.28, Sheba Blake Publishing
topic: Science, Discovery, Opposites, Antithesis, Empty Pockets, True Genius