These bicycle salesmen never went to college or had any formal technical training. Yet they created history by being the first folks to fly a heavier-than-air craft. Who?
"The greatest thing in our favor was growing up in a family where there was always much encouragement to intellectual curiosity."
QUESTION Two
This child prodigy enthralled crowds across Europe over two centuries ago. Since the dawn of advertising, his tunes have been used to sell everything from cars to watches. Who?
"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."
QUESTION THREE
He lends his name to the process in which packaged milk is 'treated with mild heat, usually to less than 100 degrees Celsius, to eliminate pathogens and extend shelf life.' Who?
"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world."
QUESTION FOUR
His career got a boost courtesy the Great Plague of 1665 when enforced isolation led to major advances towards the development of several world-changing theories. Who?
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
QUESTION FIVE
He was the first 'ape-descended life form' to feast its eyes on our pale blue dot from afar. Who?
"Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation."
QUESTION SIX
You're in all probability reading this post on a great-great-great-great descendant of his original invention. Whose?
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
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