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The children are our future, and their well-being is the truest measure of our civilization.

Harriet Lane

Philanthropy

I have been a working man myself, and I know the value of a good education.

George Stephenson

Engineering

The Jacquard loom weaves not just patterns, but the very fabric of industrial progress.

Joseph Marie Jacquard

Invention

Let my lords consider how I, by the mercy of God, having conquered the whole kingdom of the Lombards, have given it to the holy Roman church.

Charlemagne

Statesmanship

Cognitive control is not just about suppressing impulses, but about flexibly directing attention to achieve goals.

Trevor Robbins

Cognitive Science

Language is not merely a tool for communication; it is the very fabric of thought itself.

Lila Gleitman

Cognitive Science

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor Frankl

Psychology

I model in light, not in marble.

Medardo Rosso

Visual Arts

Art is the expression of the soul's deepest emotions, captured in eternal form.

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Visual Arts

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

Robert Herman

Cosmology

The stars are not mere points of light, but suns surrounded by their own systems, much like our own Sun.

Thomas Wright

Cosmology

The quasar is not just a distant beacon; it is a window into the universe's infancy.

Maarten Schmidt

Astronomy

The dark lines in the solar spectrum are fixed and unchangeable, revealing the composition of the sun's atmosphere.

Joseph Fraunhofer

Astronomy

The heart is not just an organ; it is the very rhythm of human existence.

Norman Shumway

Medicine

We have never been modern.

Bruno Latour

Anthropology

Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object.

Johannes Fabian

Anthropology

To be alive means to be entangled in the lives of others.

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Anthropology

Gender is not a thing, but a set of social relations and practices that are constantly being produced and reproduced.

Henrietta L. Moore

Anthropology

The ethnographic present is always a present that is already past.

Marilyn Strathern

Anthropology

The Amerindian cosmos is not a collection of things, but a collection of perspectives.

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Anthropology