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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“Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.”
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