In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
James Truslow Adams, Historian (1878) |
Frank Carlucci, Politician (1930) |
Jean Claude Van Damme, Actor (1960) |
Zac Efron, Actor (1987) |
Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer (1831) |
Charles Babbage, Mathematician (1871) |
Thomas A. Edison, Inventor (1931) |
Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher (1955) |
Walt Kelly, Cartoonist (1973) |