Invention

🇺🇸Douglas Engelbart

Technology

1925–2013

"The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better."

Simon Stevin

Mathematics

1548–1620

"something admirable and very necessary to see and to read, namely the order in the method of writing on mathematics in that aforementioned time of the wise age."

Thomas Edison

Technology

1847–1931

"My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. What a soul may be is beyond my understanding."

🇸🇪Alfred Nobel

Science

1833–1896

"We build upon the sand, and the older we become, the more unstable this foundation becomes."