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“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.”
| Dave Allison, Athlete (1959) |
| B. R. Ambedkar, Politician (1891) |
| James Branch Cabell, Novelist (1879) |
| Robert Carlyle, Director (1961) |
| Brad Garrett, Actor (1960) |
| Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress (1977) |
| John Gielgud, Actor (1904) |
| Anthony Michael Hall, Actor (1968) |
| Constance Jablonski, Model (1991) |
| Fredric Jameson, Critic (1934) |
| Buck Baker, Celebrity (2002) |
| Kitty Carlisle, Musician (2007) |
| Michael Flanders, Actor (1975) |
| Burl Ives, Musician (1995) |
| Phil Katz, Scientist (2000) |