Carl Friedrich Gauss

Letter to Heinrich Olbers (1805)

Carles Darwin

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (1887)

Dmitri Mendeleev

On the Question of the Psychology of Scientific Creativity (1869)

Freeman Dyson

Dyson on Feynman and Schwinger (1948)

Friedrich August Kekulé

Speech to the Festival at Berlin City Hall (1890)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ariadne's Complaint (1888)

The Fire Signal (1888)

The Sun Sinks (1888)

Henri Poincaré

L’Invention Mathématique (1908)

Hermann von Helmholtz

Memories - 70th Birthday Speech (1891)

Jacques Hadamard

The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field (1945)

James Clerk Maxwell

Molecular Evolution (1874)

Recollections of Dreamland (1856)

Report on Tait's Lecture on Force (1876)

Song of the Cub (1874)

James Watson

The Double Helix (1968)

Michael Faraday

Observations on the Means of Obtaining Knowledge (1817)

Niels Jerne

The Natural Selection Theory of Antibody Formation (1966)

Otto Loewi

The Idea of Chemical Transmission of Nervous Impulse (1960)

William Rowan Hamilton

Extract from a Letter to Professor P.G. Tait. (1858)

Letter to Rev. Archibald H. Hamilton (1865)

Wolfgang Mozart

Letter to Baron v. P. (1789)