Deaths
- February 11 - Sir Charles Parsons (born 1854), British inventor of the steam turbine.
- October 8 - General Sir John Monash (born 1865), Australian civil engineer.
- October 17 - Alfons Maria Jakob (born 1884), German neuropathologist.
- October 18 - Thomas Edison (born 1847), American inventor.
- November 27 - Sir David Bruce (born 1855), British microbiologist.
Read more about this topic: 1931 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)