Mycologist

🇬🇧Beatrix Potter

Literature

1866–1943

"I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense..."

🇺🇸John Cage

Art

Fluxus

1912–1992

"Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music."

🇸🇪Carl Linnaeus

Science

1707–1778

"The principle being accepted that all Species of one Genus have arisen from one mother through different fathers, it must be assumed"

🇺🇸George Washington Carver

Technology

1864–1943

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

"What do you think of the Chicago Bulls winning three in a row?" -- Russell: "Not much."

🇨🇦Richard Summerbell

Literature

b. 1956

"Deviant : A person who wanders from the One True Path and is caught urinating somewhere in the midst of the unthinkable. A person taking any exit ramp off the freeway of self-righteousness."