“The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.”
| Kit Carson, Explorer (1809) |
| Ava Gardner, Actress (1922) |
| Tarja Halonen, Statesman (1943) |
| Saint Ignatius, Saint (1491) |
| Johnny Isakson, Politician (1944) |
| Juan Ramon Jimenez, Poet (1881) |
| James Prescott Joule, Physicist (1818) |
| Anil Kapoor, Actor (1959) |
| Hamid Karzai, Statesman (1957) |
| Joel Barlow, Poet (1812) |
| Frederic Bastiat, Economist (1850) |
| William Cameron Forbes, Diplomat (1959) |
| George Gerbner, Journalist (2005) |