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From 70544.1227@compuserve.com Wed Aug 10 04:11:24 1994
Date: 23 Jul 94 21:50:19 EDT
From: Reilly Jones <70544.1227@compuserve.com>
Reply to: extropians@extropy.org
To: Extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Resource List (People)
For an Extropian resource list, I have found that a study of the lives
and works of these individuals helped me immensely in tracing the memetic
evolution of the philosophical conceptual framework of "Extropy", taken in
a broad historical and cultural sense.
Subject Area: The life and works of individuals
on the Extropic Meme Trail
Individual Yr. of Birth Country Area
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Zarathustra (628) Iran Theologian
Lao Tzu (605) China Religious Leader
Cleisthenes (570) Greece Statesman
Aeschylus (525) Greece Poet
Anaxagorus (500) Greece Philosopher
Sophocles (497) Greece Poet
Pericles (495) Greece Statesman
Zeno of Elea (490) Greece Philosopher
Euripides (485) Greece Poet
Empedocles (484) Greece Philosopher
Heraclitus (480) Greece Philosopher
Leucippus (480) Greece Philosopher
Socrates (469) Greece Philosopher
Democritus (460) Greece Philosopher
Plato (428) Greece Philosopher
Aristotle (384) Greece Philosopher
Euclid (320) Greece Mathematician
Aristarchus (310) Greece Astronomer
Archimedes (298) Greece Mathematician
Horace (65) Rome Poet
Plutarch 46 Greece Historian
Pelagius 360 England Theologian
Boethius 480 Rome Philosopher
Bacon, Roger 1220 England Scientist
Dante Alighieri 1265 Italy Poet
Angelico, Fra 1400 Italy Painter
Da Vinci, Leonardo 1452 Italy Painter
Pico della Mirandola 1463 Italy Philosopher
Machiavelli, Nicolo 1469 Italy Philosopher
Copernicus, Nicolaus 1473 Poland Astronomer
Michelangelo 1475 Italy Painter
Elizabeth I, Queen 1533 England Queen
Bacon, Francis 1561 England Philosopher
Galileo Galilei 1564 Italy Physicist
Shakespeare, William 1564 England Dramatist
Milton, John 1608 England Poet
Newton, Sir Isaac 1643 England Physicist
Leibniz, Gottfried von 1646 Germany Philosopher
Swift, Jonathan 1667 England Satirist
Vico, Giambattista 1668 Italy Historian
Shaftesbury, 3rd Earl 1671 England Philosopher
Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685 Germany Composer
Handel, George 1685 Germany Composer
Montesquieu, Baron de 1689 France Philosopher
Canaletto 1697 Italy Painter
Euler, Leonhard 1707 Switzerland Mathematician
Smith, Adam 1723 Scotland Economist
Watt, James 1736 Scotland Inventor
Gibbon, Edward 1737 England Historian
Condorcet, Marquis de 1743 France Philosopher
Jefferson, Thomas 1743 America President
Goethe, Johann von 1749 Germany Poet
Laplace, Pierre 1749 France Astronomer
Madison, James 1751 America President
Blake, William 1757 England Poet
Schiller, Johann von 1759 Germany Poet
Gauss, Carl Friedrich 1777 Germany Mathematician
Clausewitz, Carl von 1780 Germany General
Faraday, Michael 1791 England Physicist
Babbage, Charles 1792 England Mathematician
Carlyle, Thomas 1795 Scotland Historian
Hamilton, Sir William 1805 Ireland Mathematician
Tocqueville, Alexis de 1805 France Political Theorist
Darwin, Charles 1809 England Biologist
Boole, George 1815 England Mathematician
Spencer, Herbert 1820 England Philosopher
Cayley, Arthur 1821 England Mathematician
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821 Russia Novelist
Helmholtz, Hermann 1821 Germany Physiologist
Maxwell, James Clerk 1831 Scotland Physicist
Nietzsche, Friedrich 1844 Germany Philosopher
Cantor, Georg 1845 Germany Mathematician
Edison, Thomas 1847 America Inventor
Lorentz, Hendrik 1853 Holland Physicist
Poincare, Henri 1854 France Mathematician
Planck, Max 1858 Germany Physicist
Bergson, Henri 1859 France Philosopher
Debussy, Claude 1862 France Composer
Unamuno, Miguel de 1864 Spain Philosopher
Yeats, William Butler 1865 Ireland Poet
Driesch, Hans 1867 Germany Embryologist
Adler, Alfred 1870 Austria Psychologist
Rutherford, Sir Ernest 1871 England Physicist
Churchill, Winston 1874 England Prime Minister
Jaspers, Karl 1883 Germany Philosopher
Ortega y Gasset, Jose 1883 Spain Philosopher
Patton, George S. 1885 America General
Toynbee, Arnold 1889 England Historian
Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892 England Novelist
Fuller, R. Buckminster 1895 America Inventor
Hayek, Friedrich von 1899 Austria Economist
Pauling, Linus 1901 America Chemist
Orwell, George 1903 England Essayist
von Neumann, John 1903 America Mathematician
Kennan, George 1904 America Political Theorist
Koestler, Arthur 1905 England Philosopher
Rand, Ayn 1905 America Philosopher
Bethe, Hans 1906 America Physicist
Godel, Kurt 1906 America Mathematician
Alfven, Hannes 1908 Sweden Astrophysicist
Quine, Willard V. O. 1908 America Philosopher
Teller, Edward 1908 America Physicist
Reagan, Ronald 1911 America President
Friedman, Milton 1912 America Economist
Turing, Alan 1912 England Computer Scientist
Shannon, Claude 1916 America Mathematician
Prigogine, Ilya 1917 Belgium Biochemist
Feynman, Richard 1918 America Physicist
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 1918 Russia Novelist
Thatcher, Margaret 1925 England Prime Minister
Bork, Robert 1927 America Judge
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
-- May West
Only the shallow know themselves.
-- Oscar Wilde
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
-- George Orwell
They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.
-- Herman Melville
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the
anvil or the hammer.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Skepticism is slow suicide.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every
organism to live beyond its income.
-- Samuel Butler
The worse form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
-- Aristotle
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