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“The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

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Ideas and Opinions

Essay collection · 1954

A collection of non-technical writings by Albert Einstein on science, religion, ethics, politics, pacifism and education, drawn from across his career.

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Marie Curie

Physicist and chemist · 1867-1934

Pioneering researcher on radioactivity who discovered polonium and radium and won two Nobel Prizes.

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