Scientists and Academics
- James Smith (educator), Scottish principal of Edinburgh University, 1732–1736
- James Edward Smith (1759–1828), English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society
- James George Smith (1819–1849), American founder of Beta Theta Pi, a prominent college fraternity
- James K. A. Smith (born 1970), Canadian-born Associate Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College
- James Monroe Smith (1888–1949), President of Louisiana State University, 1930–1939
- J.L.B. Smith (James Leonard Brierley Smith, 1897–1968), South African ichthyologist
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“Y’know scientists are funny. We probe and measure and dissect. Invent lights without heat, weigh a caterpillar’s eyebrow. But when it comes to really important things we’re as stupid as the caveman.... Like love. Makes the world go ‘round, but what do we know about it? Is it a fact? Is it chemistry? Electricity?”
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“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
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