father of engineering

“Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.” 

- Archimedes [c. 287 – c. 212 BCE]

father of Athens

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones."
- Pericles [c. 495 – 429 BCE]

so gay

"You know what happened to the Greeks? Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates."
- President Richard M. Nixon

father of philosophy

"When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser."
- Socrates [c. 470 – 399 BCE]

father of medicine

"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."

- Hippocrates [c. 460 – c. 370 BCE]

the first celebrity

"For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction."
- Lord Byron [1788-1824]

father of history

"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."

- Herodotus [c. 484 – c. 425 BCE]

father of comedy

"Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever."
- Aristophanes [c. 460 - c. 380 BCE]

father of sculpture

- Polykleitos [5th century BCE]

TKO

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face."
- Mike Tyson

theoretical physics

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein

theoretical physics

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
– Max Planck

woeful unawareness

“I want to be a guileless rook to discolor the blackness of all crafty human hearts”
― Munia Khan