Physiologist

Leonardo da Vinci

Mathematics

Renaissance

1452–1519

"The false interpreters of nature declare that quicksilver is the common seed of every metal, not remembering that nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world."

🇦🇹Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Science

1901–1972

"Cybernetics, based upon the principle of feedback or circular causal trains providing mechanisms for goal-seeking and self-controlling behavior."

🇷🇺Ivan Pavlov

Medicine

1849–1936

"I was, I am and will remain the Russian, the son of the Motherland. Her life first of all I will be interested in. I will live with her interests. With her’s dignity I will strengthen mine."

🇺🇸Roger Wolcott Sperry

Science

1913–1994

"The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere."

Thomas Henry Huxley

Science

1825–1895

"Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains."

🇬🇧Charles Scott Sherrington

Science

1857–1952

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

Julian Huxley

Science

atheism

1887–1975

"The New Divinity" from Essays of a Humanist"

🇦🇺John Carew Eccles

Science

1903–1997

"Pratt, D.: John Eccles on Mind and Brain. A theosophical view."

🇫🇷Alexis Carrel

Medicine

1873–1944

"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know."

🇩🇪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"

August Krogh

Education

1874–1949

"For a large number of problems there will be some animal of choice or a few such animals on which it can be most conveniently studied."

🇬🇧Erasmus Darwin

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1731–1802

"a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian."

🇩🇪Wilhelm Wundt

Philosophy

1832–1920

"The whole task of psychology can therefore be summed up in these two problems : What are the elements of consciousness ? What combinations do these elements undergo and what laws govern these combinations ?"

🇭🇺Georg von Békésy

Science

1899–1972

"If we want to make a discovery, we have to take a risk, since everything new was discovered by accident or by the fact that somebody took a chance and went ahead when there wasn't 100 percent safety for the solution."

Christian de Duve

Science

1917–2013

"It is as though a puzzle could be put together simply by shaking its pieces."

🇬🇧Peter Medawar

Science

1915–1987

"A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries."

Andreas Vesalius

Literature

1515–1564

"By not first explaining the bones, anatomists delay the inexperienced student and, because of the difficulty of the subject, deter him from a very worthy examination of the works of God."

🇬🇧Andrew Huxley

Science

1917–2012

"I am very conscious that there is no scientific explanation for the fact that we are conscious."

🇬🇧Thomas Young (scientist)

Mathematics

1773–1829

"When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy."

🇺🇸Jared Diamond

Literature

b. 1937

"the values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."