Pathologist

🇬🇧John Ferriar

Medicine

1761–1815

"The princeps copy, clad in blue and gold."

🇨🇦John McCrae

Literature

1872–1918

"John McCrae in Flanders Fields — Historical Essay, illustrated with many photographs of John McCrae"

🇫🇷Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis

Medicine

1787–1872

"All comes from experience, it is true, but experience is nothing if it does not form collections of similar facts. Now, to make collections is to count."

🇬🇧Charles Scott Sherrington

Science

1857–1952

"It is difficult to get a hearing from busy men for even a great new truth."

🇪🇸Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Science

1852–1934

"Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain."

🇩🇪Hermann von Helmholtz

Science

1821–1894

"On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music Fourth Edition, By Hermann von Helmholtz, Alexander John Ellis, Published by Longmans, Green, 1912, 575 pages"

🇺🇸Jack Kevorkian

Medicine

1928–2011

"All the big powers...they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right."

🇩🇪Rudolf Virchow

Medicine

1821–1902

"Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged."

🇦🇺William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

Entertainment

1908–2006

"When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind."