Jean Sibelius on critics

Jean Sibelius (8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic period. His music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity.

Woody Allen on tradition

Epicurus on happiness

Neil deGrasse Tyson on science and knowledge

Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.

Steven Novella on science

Dr.  Steven Novella (born 1964) is an American clinical neurologist and assistant professor at Yale University School of Medicine. Steven is best known for his involvement in the skeptical movement. In May 2005, he started the The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe (SGU) podcast with his friends Perry DeAngelis and Evan Bernstein, and his brothers Bob and Jay.

Einstein on mistakes

Einstein on explanations

Carl Sagan on science

Aristotle on excellence

Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the Macedonian city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of ancient Greece. At eighteen, he joined Plato’s Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (c. 347 BCE).  His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy.

 

Rowan Atkinson on free speech