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Henry Dunant was a Swiss businessman and social activist who founded the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1863.

Michelangelo was a renowned Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. He is best known for works like the David and the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Joseph Lister is known as the father of modern surgery because he pioneered the use of antiseptic methods in surgical procedures.

Hugo Grotius is the father of International Law.

William Wordsworth wrote this paradoxical line in his poem 'My Heart Leaps Up' (1802). The phrase suggests that our childhood shapes our adulthood, and the child within us influences the person we become. This concept is central to Wordsworth's philosophy about childhood and nature.

The phrase 'Vox populi, vox Dei' (The voice of the people is the voice of God) is attributed to the English scholar Alcuin of York.

Knowledge is Power is a famous aphorism attributed to Sir Francis Bacon. It appears in his Meditationes Sacrae.

Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian revolutionary who founded the secret societies Young Italy and Young Europe to promote Italian unification.

Two Treatises of Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke.

Auguste Comte is widely recognized as the father of sociology, having coined the term in the 19th century.

Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics, specifically his work on social choice theory and the causes of famine.

Adam Smith is widely recognized as the father of modern economics, especially for his seminal work, The Wealth of Nations.

In early August, Eugene Odum passed away, at the age of 88, and the world lost one of the most influential figures, in the field of ecology. Dr. Odum has been dubbed “the father of modern ecology” and is credited with pioneering the concept of the ecosystem. His textbook, 'Fundamentals of Ecology' published in 1953, was the catalyst that changed ecology, from the study of the microcosm to the study of the macrocosm.

Carlous Linnaeus (Carl Linnaeus) is regarded as the father of taxonomy for his system of binomial nomenclature. Aristotle made early classifications, Hippocrates is the father of medicine, and Pauling is a modern chemist.