Irrespective of religion, I don’t know why people find it weird to keep a full beard. Even Jews and Christians agree that all the prophets had beards. Following are some of the sayings and list of people from wikipedia.com:
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- “There are two kinds of people in this world that go around beardless — boys and women — and I am neither one.”** -Greek saying**
- “A woman with a beard looks like a man. A man without a beard looks like a woman.” - Afghan Saying
- “The beard is the handsomeness of the face, and a wife is the joy in a man’s heart.” - R’ Akiva, Eicha Rabbah
Scientists and philosophers **with beards
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- Leucippus - Was among the earliest philosophers of atomism
- Aristotle - Helped to lay the philosophical foundations of Western culture
- Plato - Helped to lay the philosophical foundations of Western culture
- Socrates - Helped to lay the philosophical foundations of Western culture
- Galileo Galilei - Was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution.
- Aristarchus of Samos - Was a Greek astronomer and mathematician
- Archimedes - Was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer
- Democritus - Was a pre-Socratic Greek materialist philosopher
- Ernst Karl Abbe - He discovered the Abbe number, a measure of any transparent material’s variation of refractive index with wavelength
- Leonardo da Vinci - Was an Italian polymath; a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer
- Michelangelo - Was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer
- Donatello - Was a famous early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen - Was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics, for his discovery of x-rays
- Charles Darwin - Founder of modern biology
- Rudolf Clausius - Was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics
- William Crookes - Was an English chemist and physicist
- Pierre Curie - Was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity
- Karl Ferdinand Braun - Was a German inventor, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Ludwig Boltzmann - Was an Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics
- Henri Becquerel - Was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity
- Loránd Eötvös - Remembered today for his experimental work on gravity
- George FitzGerald - Was an Irish professor of physics
- Josiah Willard Gibbs - Helped lay the basis for a large part of modern-day science
- Charles Édouard Guillaume - Received the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Peter Andreas Hansen - Was a Danish astronomer
- Oliver Heaviside - Advanced the idea that the Earth’s uppermost atmosphere contained an ionized layer known as the ionosphere
- Heinrich Hertz - Was a German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light
- James Prescott Joule - Studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work
- Gustav Kirchhoff - Was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects
- Johannes Kepler - A key figure in the 17th century astronomical revolution
- Gabriel Lippmann - Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference, later known as the Lippmann plate
- Willebrord Snellius - Most famous for the law of refraction now known as Snell’s law
- Joseph Swan – Invented the incandescent light bulb
- Thorstein Veblen - Sociologist and economist, father of institutional economics.
- Edmund Husserl - Inaugural philosopher of the phenomenology movement.
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Political leaders** with Beards
- Julian the Apostate - Roman emperor and author of the Misopogon
- Saladin - Led the Muslim armies during the Crusades and recapturing Jerusalem
- Abdul Aziz Al-Saud - First king of Saudi Arabia
- Abraham Lincoln - Sixteenth President of the United States
- Ulysses S. Grant - Was an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States
- Rutherford Birchard Hayes - Was an American politician, lawyer, military leader, and the nineteenth President of the United States
- James A. Garfield - Was the twentieth President of the United States
- Benjamin Harrison - Was the twenty-third President of the United States
- Robert E. Lee - Confederate general
- Stonewall Jackson - Confederate general
- William Tecumseh Sherman - American Civil War General
- Manmohan Singh - Indian Prime Minister
- Fidel Castro - Former President of Cuba
- Karl Marx - Author, Economist
- Dragoljub Mihajlovic - Serbian military leader of the Chetniks during WWII