Heros

Heros

Vera Rubin

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The Astrophysicist who deserved a Nobel Prize but was ignored.

“Don’t shoot for the stars, we already know what’s there. Shoot for the space in between because that’s where the real mystery lies.” – Vera Rubin

Maya Angelou

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“If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Maya Angelou

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson

John Forbes Nash Jr

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A mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations

“The artist’s main business is to train his eye to see, then to probe and then to train his hand to work in sympathy with his eye. I have a habit of looking, and really seeing” – John Nash

Eleanor Roosevelt

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“We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Kailash Satyarthi

“The single aim of my life is that every child is: free to be a child, free to grow and develop, free to eat, sleep, see daylight, free to laugh and cry, free to play, free to learn, free to go to school, and above all, free to dream.” – Kailash Satyarthi

Marcel Proust

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

Carl Sagan

Astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator.

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” – Carl Sagan