Science
- Gustav Victor Rudolf Born - pharmacologist - German-Jewish refugee
- Max Born - Nobel Prize for physics - German-Jewish refugee
- Edith Bulbring - pharmacologist - German-Jewish refugee
- Carl Djerassi - the inventor of the first contraceptive pill. He is an Austrian refugee
- John Dollond - inventor of the achromatic lens. He founded Dollond and Aitchison; descended from Huguenot refugees
- Albert Einstein - one of the world's most famous scientists - German-Jewish refugee
- Alexander Grothendieck - mathematician - German-Jewish refugee
- Robert Fano - physicist - Italian-Jewish refugee
- Ugo Fano - physicist - Italian-Jewish refugee
- Bernard Katz - Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist - German-Jewish refugee
- Sir Hans Krebs - Nobel Prize-winning scientist - German-Jewish refugee
- Sir John Krebs - zoologist - son of Sir Hans Krebs
- Liviu Librescu, physicist; fled from Romania to Israel
- Lord (Claus) Moser - British professor of statistics and head of the Government Statistical Service - Austrian-Jewish refugee
Walter Kohn - Theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize (1998) in Chemistry for Density-Functional Theory; left Austria for England via Kindertransport
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“The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other—only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.”
—Talcott Parsons (1902–1979)