Asian Geographic Junior Issue 01/2018 No. 47 | Page 3

Opening Lines
“If I have seen further it is only by
standing on the shoulders of giants”
– Isaac Newton
The scientist who discovered gravity
after sitting under an apple tree.
“Many of life’s failures are people
who did not realize how close they
were to success when they gave up”
– Thomas Edison
The American inventor who created the
lightbulb after many failed experiments.
“The good thing about science is that it’s
true whether or not you believe in it”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
An American scientist who studies outer space.
He teaches people about science on television shows!
“Research is what I’m doing when
I don’t know what I’m doing”
– Wernher von Braun
A German scientist who invented the
rocket that brought man to the moon
“One, remember to look up at the
stars and not down at your feet.
Two, never give up work. Work gives
you meaning and purpose and life
is empty without it. Three, if you are
lucky enough to find love, remember it
is there and don’t throw it away ”
“Imagination is more
important than knowledge”
– Albert Einstein
One of the world’s most famous scientists,
he won the Nobel Prize for physics!
– Stephen Hawking
An expert on black holes, this scientist uses a
wheelchair and speaks with the help of a machine
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