Glaciologist

John Muir

Philosophy

environmentalism

1838–1914

"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer."

John Tyndall

Science

1820–1893

"It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste."

🇺🇸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."

🇺🇸John Muir (indologist)

Philosophy

environmentalism

1838–1914

"“Only that man... who is deluded, who is desirous of acquiring profits, who has neither deliberated upon his own religion, nor looked at the defects in Christianity, would become a Christian."