Scientific Literature

🇬🇧Anthony Burgess

Music

1917–1993

"The window opened gently and a still Autumn night entered cat-like. Edwin smelt freedom and London autumn – decay, smoke, cold, motor oil."

🇺🇸Chuck Palahniuk

Literature

dirty realism

b. 1962

"History is is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse."

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Medicine

"Complete Latin text: Flavi Vegeti Renati Viri Inlustris Comitis, Epitoma Rei Militaris Libri I-IV, 390 CE. The Latin Library. Accessed 17 August 2014."

🇺🇸George Gamow

Science

1904–1968

"It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!"

🇺🇸Leonard Mlodinow

Mathematics

b. 1954

"The theory of randomness is fundamentally a codification of common sense."

🇬🇧Terry Eagleton

Literature

New Left

b. 1943

"It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it."

🇺🇸Lawrence M. Krauss

Science

antitheism

b. 1954

"We only see shadows of reality. We shouldn't expect those shadows to behave sensibly."