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Martha Graham—Perfectionists
Martha Graham was to modern dance what Picasso was to painting.
Leonardo Da Vinci—Perfectionists
The quintessential Renaissance man, artist Leonardo da Vinci was curious about everything.
Al-Khwarizmi—Perfectionists
Al-Khwarizmi laid the groundwork for the modern world in setting down the rules of algebra
Simone Weil—Perfectionists
Simone Weil was a perfectionist of ethics, calling on us to attend to others’ suffering.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel—Perfectionists
Isambard Kingdom Brunel wanted all his work to be the best, but it came at a cost.
Ovid—Exiles
Ovid was Rome’s funniest, wittiest poet. How was his mind shaped by exile?
Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz—Exiles
How did exile enable a self-taught intellectual and proto-feminist to do her best work?
Marie Curie—Exiles
Marie Curie had to go into exile to do her work, but she never forgot where she came from.
Ishi—Exiles
The mind of Ishi: how one man worked to preserve the knowledge of an entire community.
Karl Marx—Exiles
Exploring the mind of Karl Marx, a revolutionary political thinker and philosopher.
