Great Thinkers


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Featuring ideas and major works of great thinkers: philosophers - Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Voltaire, Kant, Foucault, Locke, Machiavelli, Sartre, Proust, Beauvoir, Fayol, Confucius; scientists & inventors - Faraday, Marie Curie, Einstein, Copernicus, Edison, Newton; writers & authors - Shakespeare, Milton, Woolf, Maupassant, Tolstoy; explorers & pioneers - J. Cook, Lindbergh; composers - Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert; artists - van Gogh, Matisse, Goya; innovators - Da Vinci, Freud, Jung; historians; teachers - Boulanger, Montessori; impresario - Sergei Diaghilev, Cousteau; business & management gurus - Drucker, Fayol; and world leaders.

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Quotes from Famous Christmas Birthday Celebrants

In: Great Thinkers (general)

Short quotes from famous Christmas Day birthday celebrants Isaac Newton, Anwar Al Sadat, Bogart Humphrey, and Robert LeRoy Ripley. more...

Ray Bradbury Biography

In: Great Writers

Brief biography and books of Ray Bradbury, one of the founders of modern science fiction, best known for Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and other sci-fi novels. more...

Eudora Welty Biography

In: Great Writers

Brief biography of American Southern author Eudora Welty, 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner for her The Optimist's Daughter. more...

Hilaire Belloc Biography

In: Great Writers

Brief biography of Hilaire Belloc, a versatile English writer and parliamentarian best known for children's verses like Cautionary Tales and Bad Child's Book of Beasts. more...

Jean Anouilh Biography

In: Great Writers

Brief biography of prolific French playwright Jean Anouilh, best known for Antigone, Becket, The Lark, and The Traveller without Luggage. more...

Kurt Gödel Philosophy

In: Great Thinkers (general)

Philosophy and logic of Czech-American Kurt Gödel, 20th century's mathematician, logician and philosopher, best known for his theory of Incompleteness. more...

Alfred Tarski and His Philosophy

In: Great Philosophers

The philosophy of Alfred Tarski, best known for his contribution to logic, metamathematics, semantics and the philosophy of language. more...

Eugene O'Neill Biography

In: Great Writers

Brief biography of American playwright Eugene O'Neil, best known for dramatic plays of modern town life such as Long Day's Journey into Night and The Iceman Cometh. more...

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