Scientists
- Anthemius of Tralles, an architect who designed the Hagia Sophia.
- Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, mathematician.
- Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909–1992), theoretical physicist and mathematician.
- Theodosius Dobzhansky – Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution concerns the religious reader.
- Pavel Florensky – Worked on Dielectrics and theodicy.
- Alexander Friedmann – Discovered the expanding universe solution to the Einstein field equations.
- Sergei Korolev – Designed the R-7 rocket which launched the Space Age on October 4, 1957.
- Dmitri Mendeleev – Noted chemist.
- Josif Pančić (convert)
- Ivan Pavlov – His father was a Russian Orthodox priest and Ivan Pavlov was enrolled in the seminary before reading The Origin of Species .
- John Philoponus – "Christian philosopher, scientist, and theologian" .
- Alexander Popov – Inventor of radio. Son of a priest; planned to study in the seminary.
- Michael I. Pupin – Famous physicist.
- Nikola Tesla – Serbian scientist, inventor of AC and radio. He was Serbian Orthodox as a child in least since his father was a priest.
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Famous quotes containing the word scientists:
“All you of Earth are idiots!... First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your hand grenade. They begin to kill your own people a few at a time. Then the bomb. Then a larger bomb, many people are killed at one time. Then your scientists stumbled upon the atom bomb—split the atom. Then the hydrogen bomb, where you actually explode the air itself.”
—Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1922–1978)
“The myth of motherhood as martyrdom has been bred into women, and behavioral scientists have helped embellish the myth with their ideas of correct “feminine” behavior. If women understand that they do not have to ignore their own needs and desires when they become mothers, that to be self-interested is not to be selfish, it will help them to avoid the trap of overattachment.”
—Grace Baruch (20th century)
“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?”
—Martin Berkeley, and Jack Arnold. Helen Dobson (Lori Nelson)