Richard Feynman (1918–1988) "The Great Explainer”

Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was recognized as someone who could clearly explain complex topics in a way that everybody—even those without degrees in the sciences—could understand.

While studying at Princeton, Feynman began recording and connecting t...

Leonardo da Vinci is generally recognised as one of the great figures of the Renaissance and one of the greatest ever polymaths.

As the world marks the 500th anniversary of his death, it’s important to look at some of the ways in which he showed that he was a thinker who w...

One of the most incredible things about Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations was that he wrote the book only for himself; he never intended for it to be published or read by anyone else. I think this makes the original work seem all the more powerful. Marcus wrote these brilliant, incredibly lucid passag...