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B. F. Skinner
Skinner didn’t explain minds — he replaced them with measurable behaviour and its consequences.
Behavioural economics
What happens to economics once it admits people are not rational.
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Evolutionary game theory
John Maynard Smith
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Konrad Lorenz
Imprinting isn’t love—it’s a hardwired species-recognition switch flipped in the first hours after hatching.
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Abdus Salam
Salam didn’t discover a particle — he built the grammar that lets physicists speak about weak and electromagnetic forces as one thing.
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Abraham Maslow
Maslow didn’t measure self-actualisation—he curated it from heroes he admired.
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Ada Lovelace
Lovelace didn’t write code — she wrote the first argument for what code could mean.
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Al-Khwarizmi
He didn’t invent algebra—he founded it as a discipline with rules, not rhetoric.