Scientists
- César Barbosa Botanist
- Rodolfo Llinás Neuroscientist
- Manuel Elkin Patarroyo Immunologist
- Julio Garavito Armero Astronomer and mathematician
- Raul Cuero Biologist
- Nathaly Castro Diaz Biologist
- Diego Urbina Space Flight Researcher and Engineer
- Elkin Lucena Medical doctor, performed the first first successful In vitro fertilization, that allowed the birth of the first Latin American test tube baby
- Alberto Villegas performed the first heart transplant in Latin America
- Jorge Reynolds Pombo is an electrical and bio-engineer born in Colombia known worldwide as the inventor in 1958 of the first external artificial pacemaker with internal electrodes.
- José Jerónimo Triana a well known 19th century Colombian botanist
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“There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.”
—Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)
“The myth of motherhood as martyrdom has been bred into women, and behavioral scientists have helped embellish the myth with their ideas of correct “feminine” behavior. If women understand that they do not have to ignore their own needs and desires when they become mothers, that to be self-interested is not to be selfish, it will help them to avoid the trap of overattachment.”
—Grace Baruch (20th century)
“Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can’t tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)