Science
- Thomas Andrews, scientist
- John Stewart Bell, physicist
- John Bodkin Adams, doctor and suspected serial killer
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astronomer (discoverer of pulsars)
- John Boyd Dunlop, inventor and veterinary surgeon
- George Crawford Hyndman, (1796–1867) biologist
- Charles Lanyon, architect
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, FRSE, (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) was a mathematical physicist, engineer, and outstanding leader in the physical sciences of the 19th century
- William Lewis (1885–1956), Professor of Physical Chemistry, Liverpool. Propounded Collision Theory.
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“Imagination could hardly do without metaphor, for imagination is, literally, the moving around in one’s mind of images, and such images tend commonly to be metaphoric. Creative minds, as we know, are rich in images and metaphors, and this is true in science and art alike. The difference between scientist and artist has little to do with the ways of the creative imagination; everything to do with the manner of demonstration and verification of what has been seen or imagined.”
—Robert A. Nisbet (b. 1913)
““What we know, is a point to what we do not know.” Open any recent journal of science, and weigh the problems suggested concerning Light, Heat, Electricity, Magnetism, Physiology, Geology, and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)