Science and Engineering
- Miller Reese Hutchison (1897); Inventor of the electric hearing aid and Klaxon automobile horn
- Hank Hartsfield (1954); astronaut, STS-4, STS-41-D, STS-61-A
- Clifton Williams (1954); Gemini astronaut, test pilot
- Byron Lavoy Cockrell (1957); aeronautical engineer and rocket scientist
- Ken Mattingly (1958); astronaut, Apollo 13 (pulled), Apollo 16 (spacewalk), STS-4, STS-51-C
- Dr. Lester Crawford (1963); former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner.
- James Voss (1972); astronaut, STS-44, STS-53, STS-69, STS-101, ISS
- Kathryn Thornton (1974); astronaut, second US woman in space, spacewalk, STS-33, STS-73
- Charles Durward Griffin (1975); biomedical engineer, member of the Alabama Engineers Hall of Fame as of 2006
- Jan Davis (1977); astronaut, STS-47, STS-60
- Tim Cook
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“Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the “higher life.””
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“Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will be served by her. When the sunshine falls on the path of the poet, he enjoys all those pure benefits and pleasures which the arts slowly and partially realize from age to age. The winds which fan his cheek waft him the sum of that profit and happiness which their lagging inventions supply.”
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