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This post is a list of quotes by person posts for this blog. There are 367 posts listed below alphabetically and by topic.
- Art (52)
- Astronomy (4)
- Biology (11)
- Chemistry (6)
- Computers, internet and education (53)
- Economics (32)
- History (3)
- Invention (4)
- Literature (11)
- Mathematics (26)
- Medicine (5)
- Music (6)
- Philosophy (100)
- Physics (28)
- Politics (5)
- Psychology (7)
- Sociology (6)
- Statistics (2)
1. Art (52)
- Bacon, Francis (1909-1992)
- Basquiat, Jean-Michel (1960-1988)
- Braque, Georges (1882-1963)
- Calder, Alexander (1898-1976)
- Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906)
- Chagall, Marc (1887-1985)
- Chicago, Judy (1939-)
- Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989)
- Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)
- Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968)
- Flatley, Jonathan (lecture)
- Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903)
- Gogh, Vincent van (1853-1890)
- Gogh, Vincent van (1853-1890) (love)
- Gropius, Walter (1883-1969)
- Hirst, Damien (1965-)
- Hockney, David (1937-)
- Hopper, Edward (1882-1967)
- Johns, Jasper (1930-)
- Kandinsky, Wassily (1866-1944)
- Klee, Paul (1879-1940)
- Koch, Stephen (1941-)
- Kooning, Willem de (1904-1997)
- Koons, Jeff (1955-)
- Kruger, Barbara (1945-)
- Léger, Fernand (1881-1955)
- Lichtenstein, Roy (1923-1997)
- Leibovitz, Annie (1949-)
- Lissitzsky, El (1890-1941)
- Magritte, René (1898-1967)
- Malevich, Kazimir (1879-1935)
- Manet, Édouard (1832-1883)
- Matisse, Henri (1869-1954)
- Michelangelo (1575-1564)
- Miró, Joan (1893-1983)
- Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944)
- Monet, Claude (1840-1926)
- O'Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986)
- Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)
- Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903)
- Pollock, Jackson (1912-1956)
- Raphael (1483-1520)
- Rauschenberg, Robert (1925-2008)
- Rembrandt (1606-1669)
- Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919)
- Richter, Gerhard (1932-)
- Rivera, Diego (1886-1957)
- Rothko, Mark (1903-1970)
- Schnabel, Julian (1951-)
- Twombly, Cy (1928-2011)
- Vinci, Leonardo da (1452-1519)
- Warhol, Andy (1928-1987)
2. Astronomy (4)
3. Biology (11)
- Carson, Rachel (1907-1964)
- Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
- Haldane, J. B. S. (1892-1964)
- Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van (1632-1723)
- Linnaeus, Carl (1707-1778)
- Mayr, Ernst (1904-2005)
- Mendel, Gregor (1822-1884)
- Monod, Jacques (1910-1976)
- Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895)
- Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913)
- Wilson, E. O. (1929-)
4. Chemistry (6)
5. Computers, internet and education (53)
- Breteton, Dmitri (blog post)
- Berners-Lee, Tim (1955-)
- Berners-Lee, Tim (1955-) (lecture)
- Bohnett, David (1956-)
- Boole, George (1815-1864)
- boyd, danah (1977-)
- Bush, Vannevar (1890-1974)
- Cailliau, Robert (1947-)
- Case, Steve (1958-)
- Cooper, Alan (1952-)
- Cunningham, Ward (1949-)
- DeCarlo, Matt (interview)
- Downes, Stephen (lecture)
- Fuller, David (conversation)
- Gardner, Sue (1967-)
- Giblin, Rebecca (interview)
- Harris, Tristian (1983/84-)
- Hein, Fraziska / Wiegand, Alice (interview)
- Ive, Jony (1967)
- Jenkins, Henry (lecture)
- Joyce, Jamie (interview)
- Kahle, Brewster (1960-)
- Kelly, Kevin (1952-)
- Lessig, Lawrence (1961-)
- Mackintosh, Wayne (interview)
- Maher, Katherine (1983-)
- McChesney, Robert (1952-)
- Montessori, Maria (1870-1952)
- Morel, Elisabeth (presentation)
- Nelson, Ted (1937-)
- Pollock, Rufus (1980-)
- Postman, Neil (1931-2003)
- Rasberry, Lane (presentation)
- Raskin, Jef (1943-2005)
- Raymond, Eric S. (1957-)
- Simon, Herbert A. (1916-2001)
- Sanger, Larry (1968-)
- Sowa, John (1940-)
- Schmachtenberger, Daniel (third attractor)
- Schmachtenberger, Daniel (coordination)
- Stallman, Richard (1953-)
- Stihler, Catherine (1973-)
- Swartz, Aaron (1986-2013)
- Taylor, Matthew (interview)
- Thiel, Peter (1967-)
- Torvalds, Linus (1969-)
- Tretikov, Lila (interview)
- Tschichold, Jan (1902-1974)
- Turing, Alan (1912-1954)
- Wales, Jimmy (1966-)
- Wales, Jimmy (1966-) (interview)
- Wozniak, Steve (1950-)
- Zuckerman, Ethan (1973-)
6. Economics (32)
- Arrow, Kenneth (1921-2017)
- Bagehot, Walter (1826-1877)
- Earle, Joe (interview)
- Friedman, Milton (1912-2006)
- Frisch, Ragnar (1895-1973)
- Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908-2006)
- George, Henry (1839-1897)
- Hayek, Friedrich (1899-1992)
- Heckman, James (1944-)
- Jevons, William Stanley (1835-1882)
- Keynes, John Maynard (1883-1946)
- Koopmans, Tjalling (1910-1985)
- Krugman, Paul (1953-)
- Lawson, Tony (videos)
- Lawson, Tony (book)
- Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766-1834)
- Marshall, Alfred (1842-1924)
- Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
- Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)
- Mises, Ludwig von (1881-1973)
- Morgenstern, Oskar (1902-1977)
- Quesnay, Francois (1694-1774)
- Ricardo, David (1772-1823)
- Rodrik, Dani (1957-)
- Samuelson, Paul (1915-2009)
- Say, Jean-Baptiste (1767-1832)
- Schumpeter, Joseph (1883-1950)
- Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
- Smith, Noah (blog posts)
- Stiglitz, Joseph (1943-)
- Tinbergen, Jan (1903-1994)
- Veblen, Thorstein (1857-1929)
7. History (3)
8. Invention (4)
9. Literature (16)
- Asimov, Isaac (1920-1994)
- Bradbury, Ray (1920-2012)
- Clarke, Arthur C. (1917-2008)
- Eco, Umberto 1932-2016
- Frye, Northrop (1912-1991)
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
- Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)
- Keller, Hellen (1880-1968)
- Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
- Lewes, George Henry (1817-1878)
- Orwell, George (1903-1950)
- Petrarch (1304-1374)
- Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
- Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)
- Voltaire (1792-1778)
- Wells, H. G. (1866-1946)
10. Mathematics (26)
- Abel, Niels Henrik (1802-1829)
- Archimedes (287-212 BC)
- Bell, Eric Temple (1883-1960)
- Cantor, Georg (1845-1918)
- De Morgan, Augustus (1806-1871)
- Erdős, Paul (1913-1996)
- Euclid (323-283 BC)
- Euler, Leonard (1707-1783)
- Fermat, Pierre de (1607-1665)
- Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855)
- Gödel, Kurt (1906-1978)
- Grothendieck, Alexander (1928-2014)
- Hardy, G. H. (1877-1947)
- Hilbert, David (1862-1943)
- Huygens, Christiaan (1629-1695)
- Lagrange, Joseph-Pierre (1736-1813)
- Laplace, Pierre-Simon (1749-1827)
- Mandelbrot, Benoit (1924-2010)
- Neumann, John von (1903-1957)
- Peano, Giuseppe (1858-1932)
- Peirce, Benjamin (1809-1880)
- Poincaré, Henri (1854-1912)
- Ramsey, Frank (1903-1930)
- Riemann, Bernhard (1826-1866)
- Weyl, Hermann (1885-1955)
- Wiles, Andrew (1953-)
11. Medicine (5)
12. Music (6)
13. Philosophy (100)
- Anselm (1033-1109)
- Aquinas, Thomas (1225-1274)
- Arendt, Hannah (1902-1975)
- Aristotle (384-322 BC)
- Austin, J. L. (1911-1960)
- Averroes (1126-1198)
- Avicenna (980-1037 AD)
- Ayer, A. J. (1910-1989)
- Baba, Neem Karoli (1900-1973)
- Bachelard, Gaston (1884-1962)
- Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
- Bacon, Roger (1219-1292)
- Bateson, Gregory (1904-1980)
- Baudrillard, Jean (1929-2007)
- Beauvoir, Simone de (1908-1986)
- Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)
- Bergson, Henri (1859-1941)
- Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
- Blavatsky, Madame (1831-1891)
- Bloom, Allan (1930-1992)
- Buber, Martin (1878-1965)
- Camus, Albert (1913-1960)
- Campbell, Joseph (1904-1987)
- Carnap, Rudolf (1891-1970)
- Comte, Auguste (1798-1857)
- Crowley, Aleister (1875-1947)
- Dass, Ram (1931-2019)
- Deleuze, Gilles (1925-1995)
- Derrida, Jacques (1930-2004)
- Descartes, Rene (1596-1650)
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
- Feuerbach, Ludwig (1804-1872)
- Feyerabend, Paul (1924-1994)
- Foucault, Michel (1926-1984)
- Frege, Gottlob (1848-1925)
- Gurdjieff, George (1866/77-1949)
- Hacking, Ian (1936-)
- Hall, Manly P. (1901-1990)
- Hegel, Georg W. F. (1770-1831)
- Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976)
- Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
- Hume, David (1711-1776)
- Husserl, Edmund (1859-1938)
- Jackson, Michael C. (1951-)
- James, William (1842-1910)
- Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
- Kazantzakis, Nikos (1883-1957)
- Kierkegaard, Søren (1813-1855)
- Kripke, Saul (1940-)
- Kuhn, Thomas (1922-1996)
- La Rochefoucauld, Francois de (1613-1680)
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1908-2009)
- Locke, John (1632-1704)
- Lyotard, Jean-Francois (1924-1998)
- Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527)
- Magnabosco, Anthony (presentation)
- McKenna, Terence (1946-2000) (creativity)
- McKenna, Terence (1946-2000) (language I)
- McKenna, Terence (1946-2000) (language II)
- McKenna, Terence (1946-2000) (information)
- McLuhan, Marshall (1911-1980)
- McLuhan, Marshall (1911-1980) (art)
- Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873) (epistemology)
- Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873) (free speech)
- Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592)
- Moore, G. E. (1873-1958)
- Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900) (concepts)
- Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900) (morality)
- Neurath, Otto (1882-1945)
- Ockham, William of (1287-1347)
- Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
- Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914)
- Plato (427-347 BC)
- Popper, Karl (1902-1994)
- Pythagoras (570-496 BC)
- Parmenides (515 BC-)
- Polkinghorne, John (1930-)
- Quine, Willard van Orman (1908-2000)
- Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
- Ryle, Gilbert (1900-1976)
- Russell, Bertrand (1872-1970)
- Samuels, L. K. (1951-)
- Sarton, George (1884-1956)
- Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905-1980)
- Saussure, Ferdinand de (1857-1913)
- Schelling, Friedrich (1775-1854)
- Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)
- Socrates (470-399 BC)
- Spinoza, Baruch (1632-1677)
- Steiner, Rudolf (1861-1925)
- Strawson, P. F. (1919-2006)
- Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)
- Watts, Alan (1915-1973)
- Weil, Simone (1909-1943)
- Whewell, William (1794-1866)
- Whitehead, Alfred North (1861-1947)
- Wilber, Ken (1949-)
- Wilson, Colin (1931-2013)
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889-1951)
14. Physics (28)
- Bohm, David (1917-1992)
- Bohr, Niels (1885-1962)
- Boltzmann, Ludwig (1844-1906)
- Born, Max (1882-1970)
- Bridgman, Percy Williams (1882-1961)
- Broglie, Louis de (1892-1987)
- Chadwick, James (1881-1974)
- Dirac, Paul (1902-1984)
- Dyson, Freeman (1923-)
- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) (quantum mechanics)
- Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)
- Fermi, Enrico (1901-1954)
- Feynman, Richard (1918-1988)
- Hawking, Stephen (1942-2018)
- Heaviside, Oliver (1850-1925)
- Heisenberg, Werner (1901-1976)
- Mach, Ernst (1838-1916)
- Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-1879)
- Newton, Isaac (1642-1726)
- Penrose, Roger (1931-)
- Planck, Max (1858-1947)
- Rontgen, Wilhelm (1845-1923)
- Rutherford, Ernest (1871-1937)
- Schrodinger, Erwin (1887-1961)
- Tesla, Nikola (1856-1943)
- Thomson, William (1824-1907)
- Witten, Edward (1951-)
15. Politics (5)
16. Psychology (7)
17. Sociology (6)
18. Statistics (2)
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