Science
- John Bardeen (1977)
- Rachel Carson (1980, posthumously)
- Francis Collins (2007)
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1985)
- Stephen Hawking (2009)
- Clarence Johnson (1964)
- Mathilde Krim (2000)
- Joshua Lederberg (2006)
- George Low (1985, posthumously)
- Margaret Mead (1979, posthumously)
- Lewis Mumford (1964)
- Simon Ramo (1983)
- Edward Teller (2003)
- Alan Tower Waterman (1963)
- James D. Watson (1977)
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“What is done for science must also be done for art: accepting undesirable side effects for the sake of the main goal, and moreover diminishing their importance by making this main goal more magnificent. For one should reform forward, not backward: social illnesses, revolutions, are evolutions inhibited by a conserving stupidity.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“He has been described as “an innkeeper who hated his guests, a philosopher, and poet who left no written record of his thought, a despiser of women who gave all he had to one, an aristocrat, a proletarian, a pagan, an arcadian, an atheist, a lover of beauty, and, inadvertently, the stepfather of domestic science in America.””
—Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)