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Carl Sagan

1934 – 1996 · Astronomer and author

“We are made of star stuff.”

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Rosalind Franklin

1920 – 1958 · Chemist and X-ray crystallographer

“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.”

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Charles Darwin

1809 – 1882 · Naturalist

“There is grandeur in this view of life.”

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Isaac Newton

1643 – 1727 · Mathematician and physicist

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

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Nikola Tesla

1856 – 1943 · Inventor and electrical engineer

“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”

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Alan Turing

1912 – 1954 · Mathematician and computer scientist

“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”

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Stephen Hawking

1942 – 2018 · Theoretical physicist

“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

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Terry Pratchett

1948 – 2015 · Novelist

“No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”

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Ernest Hemingway

1899 – 1961 · Novelist and journalist

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

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Gabriel García Márquez

1927 – 2014 · Novelist

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

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Toni Morrison

1931 – 2019 · Novelist

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

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Maya Angelou

1928 – 2014 · Poet and memoirist

“Still I rise.”

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Charles Dickens

1812 – 1870 · Novelist

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

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Jane Austen

1775 – 1817 · Novelist

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

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William Shakespeare

1564 – 1616 · Playwright and poet

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.”

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Andy Warhol

1928 – 1987 · Artist

“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”

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Leonardo da Vinci

1452 – 1519 · Painter

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

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Vincent van Gogh

1853 – 1890 · Painter

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

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Pablo Picasso

1881 – 1973 · Painter and sculptor

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

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Frida Kahlo

1907 – 1954 · Painter

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

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Ludwig van Beethoven

1770 – 1827 · Composer

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1756 – 1791 · Composer

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”

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Louis Armstrong

1901 – 1971 · Jazz trumpeter and singer

“What a wonderful world.”

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Luciano Pavarotti

1935 – 2007 · Operatic tenor

“Nessun dorma.”

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Ella Fitzgerald

1917 – 1996 · Jazz singer

“The First Lady of Song.”

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Frank Sinatra

1915 – 1998 · Singer and actor

“I did it my way.”

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Leonard Cohen

1934 – 2016 · Singer

“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.”

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Johnny Cash

1932 – 2003 · Singer and songwriter

“The Man in Black.”

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Tina Turner

1939 – 2023 · Singer

“Simply the best.”

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Bob Marley

1945 – 1981 · Musician

“One love, one heart.”

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Aretha Franklin

1942 – 2018 · Singer

“The Queen of Soul.”

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Kurt Cobain

1967 – 1994 · Musician

“Come as you are.”

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Amy Winehouse

1983 – 2011 · Singer and songwriter

“I'm not a girl trying to be a star. I'm just a girl who sings.”

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Elvis Presley

1935 – 1977 · Singer and actor

“The King of Rock and Roll.”

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