The great Roman philosopher Cicero once said, ‘To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to forever remain a child’. To climb the tower of a scientific discipline, we should realize how the tower was built. A surgeon faces innumerable problems throughout his career that affects both his personal and professional life. We always believe the answers to problems of the present day lie in the pages of the past. In the glimpses of great moments in the career of a few extraordinary surgeons,we attempt to bring to the fore their treasure trove of knowledge, learning, heroism and devotion along with the relevance their persona holds to the present day surgeon.