“The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.”
“Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.”
| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete (1947) |
| Edie Adams, Musician (1927) |
| Herbert Baxter Adams, Educator (1850) |
| Akon, Musician (1973) |
| Tom Allen, Politician (1945) |
| Ellen Barkin, Actress (1955) |
| Gina Carano, Actress (1982) |
| Peter Garrett, Musician (1953) |
| Lukas Haas, Actor (1976) |
| Lord Halifax, Politician (1881) |
| Fred Davis, Celebrity (1998) |
| Ralph Ellison, Author (1994) |
| Edna Ferber, Novelist (1968) |
| Yasunari Kawabata, Novelist (1972) |
| David Lean, Director (1991) |