Charles Darwin (1809–1882)

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1. Stephen Jay Gould

   Author of Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)
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2. Richard Dawkins

   Author of The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, Climbing Mount Improbable

3. Charles William Eliot

   Author of The Apology, Phædo, and Crito of Plato; The Golden sayings of Epictetus; The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Elizabethan Drama, Volume I: Marlowe; Shakespeare, American Historical Documents, 1000-1904
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4. Charles Darwin

   Author of On the Origin of Species, The Voyage of the Beagle, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

5. Carl Sagan

   Author of Cosmos, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

6. Daniel C. Dennett

   Author of Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Consciousness Explained, Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology

7. Edward O. Wilson

   Author of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, The Diversity of Life, The Future of Life

8. John Stuart Mill

   Author of On Liberty, Autobiography, Britannica Great Books: American State Papers

9. Lucretius

   Author of On the Nature of the Universe, Britannica Great Books: Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Sensation and Sex

10. William Shakespeare

    Author of The Complete Plays: The Tragedies, The Complete Plays: The Comedies, Britannica Great Books: Shakespeare I

11. Edward Gibbon

    Author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The Christians and the Fall of Rome, Reflections on the Fall of Rome

12. Francis Bacon

    Author of Essays, Britannica Great Books: Bacon, Of Empire

13. James Boswell

    Author of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763, Meeting Dr. Johnson

14. John Milton

    Author of The Complete Poetry of John Milton, The Portable Milton, Britannica Great Books: Milton

15. Aristotle

    Author of Britannica Great Books: Aristotle II, Britannica Great Books: Aristotle I

16. Friedrich Nietzsche

    Author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Portable Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

17. Marco Polo

    Author of The Travels of Marco Polo, Travels in the Land of Kublai Khan

18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Author of On the Social Contract, The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, First and Second Discourse, Together With Replies to the Critics and Essays on the Origin of Languages

19. Albert Einstein

    Author of Relativity: The Special and General Theory

20. Richard Henry Dana

    Author of Two Years Before the Mast, Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After