Surgery

🇿🇦Christiaan Barnard

Music

1922–2001

"The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped."

🇫🇷Alexis Carrel

Medicine

1873–1944

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

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."