Philosophers, Scientists and Thinkers
- Empedocles (c. 490 – 430 BC), scientist and philosopher
- Gorgias (c. 483 – 375 BC), philosopher
- Archimedes (c. 287 – 212 BC), engineer and mathematician
- Muhammad al-Idrisi (1100 – 1166 AD), geographer and author of Tabula Rogeriana
- Constantine the African (c. 1020 – 1087), physician and translator
- Giovanni Aurispa (1376 – 1459), anthropologist
- Francesco Maurolico (1494 – 1575), mathematician
- Giuseppe Piazzi (1746 – 1826), astronomer, discovered the minor planet Ceres
- Niccolò Cacciatore (1780 – 1841), astronomer
- Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826 – 1910), chemist
- Giuseppe Sergi (1841 – 1936), anthropologist
- Ettore Majorana (1906 – ?), physicist
- Giovanni Gentile (1875 – 1944), philosopher
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“All you of Earth are idiots!... First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your hand grenade. They begin to kill your own people a few at a time. Then the bomb. Then a larger bomb, many people are killed at one time. Then your scientists stumbled upon the atom bomb—split the atom. Then the hydrogen bomb, where you actually explode the air itself.”
—Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1922–1978)
““Dark times” is what they call it in Norway when the sun remains below the horizon all day long: the temperature falls slowly but surely at such times.—A nice metaphor for all those thinkers for whom the sun of mankind’s future has temporarily disappeared.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)