Science and Technology and Engineering
- Bob (physics), the weight at the end of a pendulum
- Alice and Bob, placeholder characters in cryptography and physics problems
- Breakout box, a piece of electronics equipment used to split components or individual leads in a connector
- Hurricane Bob, first major hurricane of the 1991 Atlantic hurricane season
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Famous quotes containing the words science and technology, science and, science, technology and/or engineering:
“Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
“If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.”
—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)
“Mining today is an affair of mathematics, of finance, of the latest in engineering skill. Cautious men behind polished desks in San Francisco figure out in advance the amount of metal to a cubic yard, the number of yards washed a day, the cost of each operation. They have no need of grubstakes.”
—Merle Colby, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)