"...but my words shall not pass away"?

who in human history has had views of the world that have stood the "tests of time"?

Moses? Plato? Pythagoras? Ptolemy? Augustine? Dante? Thomas? Bacon? Galileo? Newton? Goethe? Emerson? Einstein? et al...

even the words in the Bible "heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away", (Matthew 24:35) seem -- sub specie mundi -- clearly already during some centuries to have increasingly passed out of the belief of many. (even if we still have the year "2012".)