The Brazilian Academy of Sciences (Portuguese: Academia Brasileira de Ciências or ABC) is the national academy of Brazil. It is headquartered in the city of Rio de Janeiro and was founded in 1916.
It publishes a large number of scientific publications, and has a distinguished array of national and international members. Among the most notable are:
- Alain Meunier
- Amir Ordacgi Caldeira
- Aziz Nacib Ab'Saber
- Carl Djerassi
- Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz
- Charles D. Michener
- Chen Ning Yang
- Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
- Constantino Tsallis
- Crodowaldo Pavan
- D. Allan Bromley
- David Goldstein
- David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis
- Edmundo de Souza e Silva
- Eduardo Moacyr Krieger
- Eduardo Oswaldo Cruz
- Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger
- Harold Max Rosenberg
- Henry Taube
- Jayme Tiomno
- Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
- Jens Martin Knudsen
- John Campbell Brown
- José Goldemberg
- José Leite Lopes
- Luiz Pinguelli Rosa
- Marco Antonio Zago
- Marcos Moshinsky
- Maurício Rocha e Silva
- Mayana Zatz
- Mildred S. Dresselhaus
- Nicole Marthe Le Douarin
- Norman Ernest Borlaug
- Nuno Alvares Pereira
- Oscar Sala
- Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa
- Peter H. Raven
- Pierre Gilles de Gennes
- Ricardo Renzo Brentani
- Richard Darwin Keynes
- Richard Williams
- Sérgio Henrique Ferreira
- Simon Schwartzman
- Stanley Kirschner
- Wilhelm Hasselbach
- Warwick Estevam Kerr
- William Sefton Fyfe
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“If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.”
—Sting [Gordon Matthew Sumner] (b. 1951)
“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred by nature upon few, and the labour of learning those sciences which may, by mere labour, be obtained, is too great to be willingly endured; but every man can exert some judgment as he has upon the works of others; and he whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of critic.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)