Leonardo da Vinci united the arts and the sciences. On the one hand he was a painter and skilled draftsman, and on the other an inventor and tireless researcher. A legend in his own time, Leonardo was
Albert Einstein wasn’t afraid to think for himself. And as a young man, he had little choice—after barely passing his final exams in college, he couldn’t find a job in physics and had to take a job re
Back in the late 1600s, science was still in its infancy. If you dropped an apple it would fall to the ground, but nobody could explain why. That changed in 1687 when Isaac Newton, a professor at the
When Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859, he forever altered the way people looked at their place in the world—humans were just another animal species that evolved from more primiti
