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Science and first-principles thinking
Scientists and inventors who show how to question assumptions, test ideas and reason from the ground up.
30 of 232 masters
Albert Einstein
Physicist who developed relativity (1879-1955)
515 records
AskPhoto Oren Jack Turner · Public domain
Isaac Newton
Physicist who described gravity and motion (1642-1727)
877 records
AskPhoto Godfrey Kneller · Public domain
Marie Curie
Physicist and chemist, twice a Nobel laureate (1867-1934)
345 records
AskPhoto Henri Manuel · Public domain
Nikola Tesla
Inventor who pioneered AC electricity (1856-1943)
326 records
AskPhoto Napoleon Sarony · Public domain
Richard Feynman
Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1918-1988)
256 records
AskPhoto Copyright Tamiko Thiel 1984 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Charles Darwin
Naturalist who founded evolutionary theory (1809-1882)
1,031 records
AskPhoto Henry Maull (1829–1914) and John Fox (1832–1907) (Maull & Fox); derivative work: Beao · Public domain
Carl Sagan
Astronomer, author of Cosmos (1934-1996)
236 records
AskPhoto NASA/JPL · Public domain
Claude Shannon
Mathematician, founder of information theory (1916-2001)
65 records
AskPhoto Unknown author / Tekniska museet · CC BY 2.0
Andrew Huberman
Stanford neuroscientist, podcast host
1,154 records
AskPhoto Steve Jurvetson · CC BY 2.0
Grace Hopper
Computer pioneer and US Navy rear admiral (1906-1992)
41 records
AskPhoto James S. Davis · Public domain
David Deutsch
Oxford physicist, pioneer of quantum computing
135 records
AskPhoto Simon Benjamin · CC BY 3.0
Richard Hamming
Bell Labs mathematician, inventor of Hamming codes
75 records
AskElon Musk
CEO of SpaceX and Tesla
577 records
AskPhoto Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist
378 records
AskPhoto Bogdan Hoyaux / European Union · CC BY 4.0
Demis Hassabis
Co-founder of Google DeepMind, Nobel laureate in chemistry
174 records
AskPhoto John Sears · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dario Amodei
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic
535 records
AskPhoto TechCrunch · CC BY 2.0
Leonardo da Vinci
Renaissance painter, engineer and scientist (1452-1519)
873 records
AskPhoto Attributed to Francesco Melzi · Public domain
Aristotle
Ancient Greek philosopher, student of Plato
942 records
AskPhoto After Lysippos · Public domain
Thomas Edison
Inventor, co-founder of General Electric (1847-1931)
701 records
AskPhoto Louis Bachrach, Bachrach Studios, restored by Michel Vuijlsteke · Public domain
Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist, Nobel laureate in economics (1934-2024)
122 records
AskPhoto nrkbeta · CC BY-SA 2.0
Fei-Fei Li
Stanford AI professor, co-founder of World Labs
89 records
AskPhoto ITU Pictures · CC BY 2.0
Sejong the Great
Fourth king of Joseon, creator of Hangul
52 records
AskPhoto Unknown author · Public domain
Andrej Karpathy
Founding member of OpenAI, former head of AI at Tesla
705 records
AskPhoto Gladwin Analytics · CC BY 3.0
Jim Simons
Founder of Renaissance Technologies (1938-2024)
114 records
AskPhoto Gleuschk · CC BY-SA 3.0
Patrick Collison
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe
345 records
AskPhoto JD Lasica · CC BY 2.0
Alan Kay
Computer scientist, pioneer of object-oriented programming
27 records
AskPhoto Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, U.S.A. · CC BY 2.0
Carol Dweck
Stanford psychology professor, author of Mindset
14 records
AskPhoto Satheesh Gopalan · CC BY-SA 3.0
Donella Meadows
Systems thinker, lead author of The Limits to Growth
28 records
AskTim Urban
Writer of the blog Wait But Why
772 records
AskPhoto Steve Jurvetson · CC BY 2.0
Edwin Land
Co-founder of Polaroid (1909-1991)
52 records
AskPhoto Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer · Public domain
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