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Writers about religion and science
- VoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet was born in Paris on the 21st of November 1694. He entered the world as the youngest child of a minor treasury official and a woman…
- Thomas AquinasIn the year 1244, a young man named Thomas Aquinas sat bound in the stone tower of Monte San Giovanni Campano. He was nineteen years old and dressed in the…
- Stephen KingStephen Edwin King was born on the 21st of September 1947 in Portland, Maine. His father Donald Edwin King worked as a traveling vacuum salesman after…
- Mark TwainSamuel Langhorne Clemens was born on the 30th of November 1835, in Florida, Missouri. He grew up as the sixth of seven children to Jane Lampton and John…
- C. S. LewisClive Staples Lewis was born on the 29th of November 1898 in Belfast, Ulster. His father Albert James Lewis worked as a solicitor while his mother Florence…
- Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant was born on the 22nd of April 1724 in Königsberg, Prussia. His father Johann Georg worked as a harness maker from Memel while his mother Anna…
- Galileo GalileiIn the year 1564, a boy named Galileo was born in Pisa to Vincenzo Galilei and Giulia Ammannati. His father worked as a lutenist and music theorist who…
- Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis on the 11th of November 1922. He descended from a long line of German Americans whose family fortune rested on the…
- René DescartesRené Descartes entered the world on the 31st of March 1596 in La Haye en Touraine, France. His mother Jeanne Brochard died just days after his birth while…
- Karl MarxKarl Marx entered the world on the 5th of May 1818 at Brückengasse 664 in Trier, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia. His father Heinrich Marx worked as a…
- Leonhard EulerLeonhard Euler was born in Basel on the 15th of April 1707 to Paul III Euler and Marguerite Brucker. His father served as a pastor for the Reformed Church…
- Carl SaganCarl Edward Sagan was born on the 9th of November 1934 in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn. His father Samuel worked as a garment worker who had…
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born on the 27th of August 1770 in Stuttgart, the capital of the Duchy of Württemberg.
- Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, the 25th of December 1642 at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire. His father had died three months before the birth.
- Francis BaconFrancis Bacon was born on the 22nd of January 1561 at York House near Strand in London. He entered Trinity College at the University of Cambridge on the 5th…
- Claude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-Strauss was born on the 28th of November 1908 in Brussels. His parents were French Jews who had moved there for his father's work as a portrait…
- Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov arrived in the United States on the 3rd of February 1923, aboard the RMS Baltic at age three. His family traveled from Petrovichi, Russian SFSR…
- TaixuTaixu was born on the 8th of January 1890 in Haining, a county within Zhejiang province. His parents died while he remained very young.
- Pierre GassendiPierre Gassendi arrived in the world on the 22nd of January 1592 within the quiet village of Champtercier. His father Antoine and mother Françoise Fabry…
- David AttenboroughDavid Frederick Attenborough was born on the 8th of May 1926 in Isleworth, Middlesex. He grew up in College House on the campus of University College…
- Al-KhwarizmiMuhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi lived between the years 780 and 850. His birthplace remains a subject of historical debate among scholars today.
- Michael FaradayOn the 21st of September 1791, a boy named Michael Faraday opened his eyes in Newington Butts, Surrey. His father James worked as a blacksmith before moving…
- James George FrazerJames George Frazer entered the world on the 1st of January 1854 in Glasgow, Scotland. His father Daniel F. Frazer worked as a chemist while his mother…
- Fritjof CapraFritjof Capra was born on the 1st of February 1939 in Vienna, Austria. He pursued his doctoral studies at the University of Vienna and earned a PhD in…
- Michel WeberMichel Weber was born in 1963. He began his academic journey studying applied economics at the Saint-Louis University in Brussels.
- Theodosius DobzhanskyTheodosius Dobzhansky entered the world on the 25th of January 1900 in Nemirov within the Russian Empire. His parents were Grigory and Sophia Voinarsky.