Botany

🇺🇸Louis Agassiz

Science

1807–1873

"The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world."

🇬🇧Erasmus Darwin

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1731–1802

"a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian."

🏛️Theophrastus

Philosophy

peripatetic school

-370–-286

"Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural."

🇺🇸Hugh Iltis

Science

1925–2016

"The general biological ignorance bodes ill for democratic decisions on environmental issues."

🇺🇸George Washington Carver

Technology

1864–1943

"The Life of George Washington Carver: In His Own Words, Eagle Forum University."

Jagadish Chandra Bose

Science

1858–1937

"Bose was the first Indian to be admitted in person to the sanctum sanctorum of English, thus western science."

Herbert Spencer

Philosophy

positivism

1820–1903

"Herbert Spencer: The Defamation Continues" by Roderick T. Long"

🇫🇷Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Literature

Q2380458

1737–1814

"The charity of the Gospel must extend to all religions and the French hospitality to all people."

Harry Johnston

Art

1858–1927

"Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable."

🇬🇧William Jones (philologist)

Mathematics

1746–1794

"Plato drew many of his notions from the sages of Hindustán."

🇸🇪Carl Linnaeus

Science

1707–1778

"We say there are as many genera as there are similarly constituted fructifications of different natural species."

🇬🇧David Brewster

Science

1781–1868

"Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon."

🇬🇧Gideon Mantell

Science

1790–1852

"The Fossils of the South Downs; or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex"