Science and Technology
| Name | Notability | Connection to Florida |
|---|---|---|
| Anthony J. Arduengo, III (1952–) | Chemist, Material Scientist, Discoverer of Stable Carbenes | Born in Tampa |
| Philip Don Estridge (1937–1985) | Led the development of the IBM Personal Computer | Born in Jacksonville; lived and worked in Boca Raton |
| George Smoot (1945-) | Astrophysicist, Cosmologist, and Nobel laureate | Born in Yukon |
| John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008) | Theoretical Physicist | Born in Jacksonville |
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Famous quotes containing the words science and, science and/or technology:
“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.”
—H.G. (Herbert George)
“Radio put technology into storytelling and made it sick. TV killed it. Then you were locked into somebody else’s sighting of that story. You no longer had the benefit of making that picture for yourself, using your imagination. Storytelling brings back that humanness that we have lost with TV. You talk to children and they don’t hear you. They are television addicts. Mamas bring them home from the hospital and drag them up in front of the set and the great stare-out begins.”
—Jackie Torrence (b. 1944)