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Famous ScientistsWe feature biographical details about a number of famous scientists on our site together with information about their discoveries, their books, and their wider activities. Please advise us about any other scientists who you feel are famous enough to be the subject of interest by potential visitors to our pages. In our view the findings of some famous scientists allow openings towards a deeper understanding of 'The Human Condition.'
Serious scientific Psychological studies have detected
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Dr. William Sheldon Human Personality traits |
The New York Longitudinal Study Alexander Thomas, Stella Chess, Herbert G. Birch |
"There is one mind common to all individual men....
....Of the works of this mind history is the record. Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history. All the facts of history pre-exist as laws. Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. Epoch after epoch, camp, kingdom, empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of this manifold spirit to the manifold world."
From Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay ~ History
"Whatever concept one may hold, from a metaphysical point of view, concerning the freedom of the will, certainly its appearances, which are human actions, like every other natural event, are determined by universal laws. However obscure their causes, history, which is concerned with narrating these appearances, permits us to hope that if we attend to the play of freedom of the human will in the large, we may be able to discern a regular movement in it, and that what seems complex and chaotic in the single individual may be seen from the standpoint of the human race as a whole to be a steady and progressive though slow evolution of its original endowment."
Immanuel Kant
Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784)
Stephen Hawking zero-gravity flight |
Konrad Lorenz |
Desmond Morris Naked Ape |
Prof. Hawking quotes On God and Religion |
Charles Darwin & Alfred Russel Wallace Joint! developers of Evolutionary Theory |
Thomas Malthus His Essay on Population inspired Darwin & Wallace! |
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Theory of Evolution development ~ history of evolutionary theory Charles Darwin ~ Alfred Russel Wallace ~ Thomas Malthus |
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Stephen Pinker The Blank Slate |
Patrick Steptoe & Robert Edwards "test tube" babies 1978 |
Robert Winston Human Instinct |
E. O. Wilson Sociobiology |
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Niko Tinbergen |
David Attenborough Life on Earth |
Richard Dawkins Selfish Gene | Stephen Hawking Black Holes |