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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Part II)

May 18, 2017 by Avil Beckford

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Part II)
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Discover Your Genius: How to Think Like History’s Ten Most Revolutionary Minds This post is the second part in a series on where good ideas come from and standing on the shoulders of giants. “For everyone of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s somebody there to show you the way out” Oprah Winfrey There are many […]

Filed Under: Article, Mentor Yourself, Professional Development, Self-improvement Tagged With: Albert Einstein, Alexander Fleming, Art of Thinking, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Discoveries, Great ideas, Great thinkers, Inventions, Isaac Newton, Oprah Winfrey, People Who Changed the World, Reading

Men in Science: Babbage, Darwin, Einstein, & Newton

September 4, 2012 by Avil Beckford

Men in Science: Babbage, Darwin, Einstein, & Newton
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In science, you have breakthrough discoveries, and more often than not, scientists build on the work of others. On The Invisible Mentor Blog, we have profiled some male scientists who have made phenomenal scientific discoveries – Babbage, Darwin, Einstein and Newton. Charles Babbage Charles Darwin Albert Einstein Sir Isaac Newton Charles Babbage, Father of the […]

Filed Under: Professional Development, Profiles of Wise People, Self-improvement Tagged With: Ada Lovelace, Albert Einstein, Babbage, Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin, Darwin, Einstein, Isaac Newton, John Stevens Henslow, Newton, Sir Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton, English Physicist, Mathematician

April 4, 2012 by Avil Beckford

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Contributing factors to success is ongoing learning and reading broadly. Sir Isaac Newton had those attributes, and he was curious and loved to experiment as well. From a young age he was building things such as sundials, water clocks and windmills. He found the answer to gravity from nature when he saw an apple falling […]

Filed Under: Mentor Yourself, Professional Development, Profiles of Wise People, Self-improvement, Wisdom for Life Tagged With: Cambridge University, Frans Van Schooten, Isaac Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Robert Hooke, Royal Society

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