William Shakespeare (April 23, 1564, baptised April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616), writer. The actual date of William Shakespeare's birth is not known, but, traditionally, April 23, St George's Day, has been Shakespeare's accepted birthday.
William Shakespeare is considered by many as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is known as England's national poet and the Bard of Avon. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. William Shakespeare's plays are performed more often than those of any other playwright and have been translated into every major living language.
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” - William Shakespeare
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." - William Shakespeare
"To be, or not to be: that is the question" - William Shakespeare
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages." - William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is another writer whose works has been banned.
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Elijah (Eliyahu) ben Shlomo Zalman Kremer also known as Rabbi Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman (April 23, 1720 - October 9, 1797), best known as the Vilna Gaon was an exceptional Talmudist, Halachist, Kabbalist. He is commonly referred to in Hebrew as ha'Gaon ha'Chasid mi'Vilna, "the saintly genius from Vilnius."
Vilna Gaon is considered as one of the most influential Rabbinic authorities since the Middle Ages.
"As young as three years old he had committed the Bible to memory. At the age of seven he was taught Talmud by Moses Margalit, rabbi of Kaidan and the author of a commentary to the Jerusalem Talmud, and was supposed to know several of the tractates by heart. The Vilna Gaon is well known for having possessed a photographic memory. By eight, he was studying astronomy during his lunch time. From the age of ten he continued his studies without the aid of a teacher, and by the age of eleven he had committed the entire Talmud to memory." direct quote source (1)
Vilna Gaon was also a diligent student of history, geography, mathematics, astronomy and anatomy and insisted that it was necessary to study secular sciences, because the Torah and science were linked together.
Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck, better known as Max Planck (April 23, 1858 – October 4, 1947), physicist, oft referred to as one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. Max Planck received the Nobel Prize in Physics 1918 (awarded 1919) and is considered to be the founder of the quantum theory.
"As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter." - Max Planck
"Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with." - Max Planck
"Both Religion and Science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view." - Max Planck
“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” - Max Planck
“Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.” - Max Planck
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