Anatomist

Leonardo da Vinci

Mathematics

Renaissance

1452–1519

"Subito salse in me due cose: paura e desiderio: paura per la minacciante e scura spelonca, desiderio per vedere se là entro fusse alcuna miracolosa cosa. (Ancient Italian)"

Thomas Henry Huxley

Science

1825–1895

"Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once."

🇬🇧Christopher Wren

Science

1632–1723

"A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth."

Richard Owen

Science

1804–1892

"No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin."

🇪🇸Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Science

1852–1934

"Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain."

🇺🇸Leonard Hayflick

Medicine

1928–2024

"Age-related sensory changes can be traced to degeneration in some of the cells and cell products that compose the sense organ itself."

🇺🇸Neil Shubin

Science

b. 1960

"Just as Darwin’s theory predicted: at the right time, at the right place, we had found intermediates between two apparently different kinds of animals."

🇺🇸Jill Bolte Taylor

Science

b. 1959

"Who are we? We are the life force power of the universe."

Andreas Vesalius

Literature

1515–1564

"By not first explaining the bones, anatomists delay the inexperienced student and, because of the difficulty of the subject, deter him from a very worthy examination of the works of God."