After working in film production for a decade, Alton Brown realized that he wanted to do something different. “I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.’”

Anning’s personal qualities of dedication, her continual pursuit of knowledge, and her years of experience were the reason she’s received any recognition at all since she was a woman, of a lower social class, and from a provincial area at a time when upper-class London men were the only ones receiving the credit for geological discoveries.

In 1933, after a chat with the priest, Einstein admitted that he was wrong in previously rejecting it and is said to have remarked, “This is the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of the creation of the universe I’ve heard.”

Thank you, Steve Irwin, for helping create in me and millions of other humans a humble wonder and respect for our fellow Earth neighbors.

On a bright Spring morning in 1953, Watson and Crick finally did it! They walked into the pub next door and Watson exclaimed, “We have found the secret of life!”

Thanks, Thomas Young... for being courageous enough to step out from behind the large shadow of your predecessors and, in so doing, teach us the importance of thinking outside the box.

Thanks, Orville and Wilbur… for getting us off the ground.

Standing on the shoulders of giants…