Physiology

Leonardo da Vinci

Mathematics

Renaissance

1452–1519

"Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie."

🇷🇺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."

🇺🇸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."

🇫🇷Alexis Carrel

Medicine

1873–1944

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

🇩🇪Bernard Katz

Medicine

1911–2003

"Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme."

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."

🇬🇧Charles Scott Sherrington

Science

1857–1952

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

🇬🇧Andrew Huxley

Science

1917–2012

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

🇩🇪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 ?"