Dragons and frogs: Zhang Heng -- Writing on horseback: Ibn Sīnā -- Full of stars--and himself: Galileo -- The importance of an apple: Isaac Newton -- "Promise not to call me a lunatic": William and Caroline Herschel -- Throwing up at the sight of blood: Charles Darwin -- Caterpillars in the lab: Louis Pasteur -- Very famous dogs: Ivan Pavlov -- Science can be delicious: George Washington Carver -- A blue-green glow: Marie Curie -- Fooling around for eight hours a day: Albert Einstein -- Cowboy songs in the dark: Edwin Hubble -- Watering corn with her tears: Barbara McClintock -- "Computers were more fun": Grace Murray Hopper -- Imagining surf: Rachel Carson -- "A dear old friend": Chien-Shiung Wu -- "Two people are better than one": James D. Watson and Francis Crick -- From waitress to world expert: Jane Goodall.