Natural Science

🇧🇷Isaac Newton

Mathematics

Enlightenment

1934–2014

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

Jawaharlal Nehru

Politics

1889–1964

"History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field."

"a system in which all relevant information would be available to each research worker in an amplitude proportional to its degree of relevance."

Pliny the Elder

Science

20–79

"Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part which is rough."

🇫🇷Jean-Henri Fabre

Science

Félibrige

1823–1915

"Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity."

Al-Biruni

Mathematics

973–1050

"Biruni, a scholar in many disciplines - from linguistics to mineralogy - and perhaps medieval Uzbekistan's most universal genius."

🇫🇷Georges Cuvier

Science

1769–1832

"It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them."

🇨🇭Rudolf Steiner

Philosophy

anthroposophy

1861–1925

"Ethical individualism... is spiritualized theory of evolution carried over into moral life."

🇺🇸John Burroughs

Science

1907–1978

"Science, in the broadest sense, is simply that which may be verified; but how much of that which theology accepts and goes upon is verifiable by human reason or experience?"

🇸🇪Carl Linnaeus

Science

1707–1778

"The Earth's Creation is the glory of God, as seen from the works of Nature by Man alone."