Nobel Prize Winner

Rabindranath Tagore

Music

Bengali Renaissance

1861–1941

"God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land."

🇩🇪Hermann Hesse

Literature

existentialism

1861–1948

"Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil."

🇮🇳Amartya Sen

Economics

b. 1933

"No less importantly, intellectual probing is needed to identify deeds that are not intended to be injurious, but which have that effect..."

🇬🇧T. S. Eliot

Literature

modernist literature

1888–1965

"What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."

🇬🇧William Henry Bragg

Science

1862–1942

"On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we use the wave theory; on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays we think in streams of flying energy quanta or corpuscles."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Literature

1904–1991

"We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children."