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, science, technology and/or engineering:
“If you have science and art,
You also have religion;
But if you don’t have them,
You better have religion.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body—we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“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)