Włodzimierz Ptak (1928–2019) immunologist
Kobos, Andrzej (2009). Po drogach uczonych (in Polish). 4. Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, pp. 383–398. ISBN 978-83-7676-021-6.
After his getting the August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann Medal for chemistry quoted in Need young scientists to lead: C N R Rao, 11 January 2011, 22 December 2013, Nature Publishing Group http://www.nature.com/nindia/2010/100111/full/nindia.2009.365.html,
Włodzimierz Ptak (1928–2019) immunologist
Kobos, Andrzej (2009). Po drogach uczonych (in Polish). 4. Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, pp. 383–398. ISBN 978-83-7676-021-6.
“He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died.”
Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace
Source: War and Peace
Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899–1985) Australian virologist
Gustav Nossal (2002): In interview by Robyn Williams, in: The Science Show http://web.archive.org/web/20020812175035/http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s538314.htm, Saturday 20/4/2002. <br class="br">Gustav Nossal on working with Burnet. <br class="br">About Burnet
“These heroes are dead. They died for liberty — they died for us.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Memorial Day Vision. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed
Context: These heroes are dead. They died for liberty — they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or storm, each in the windowless palace of rest. Earth may run red with other wars — they are at peace. In the midst of battles, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death.
Robert E. Machol (1917–1998) American systems engineer
Robert Machol in: " Now it is to be cited or perish http://books.google.com/books?id=wHphHUhDk7wC&pg=PA491." New Scientist. Vol. 67, nr. 964. August 28, 1974. p. 491
Michael Crichton (1942–2008) American author, screenwriter, film producer
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
“But on paper, things can live forever.
On paper, a butterfly
never dies.”
Jacqueline Woodson book Brown Girl Dreaming
Source: Brown Girl Dreaming