Scientists and Academics
- Robert Blinc (born 1933), Physicist
- Katja Boh (1929–2008), Sociologist, politician and diplomat
- Miran Božovič (born 1957), Philosopher
- Božidar Debenjak (born 1935), Philosopher
- Mladen Dolar (born 1952), Philosopher
- Bogo Grafenauer (1916–1995), Historian
- Jovan Hadži (1884–1972), Zoologist
- Hermann Haus (1925–2003), Scientist
- Peter Jambrek (born 1940), Jurist, sociologist, and public intellectual
- Taras Kermauner (1930–2008), Literary historian and essayist
- Milan Komar (1921–2006), Philosopher
- Emil Korytko (1813–1839), Polish philologist and ethnographer
- Ernst Mally (1879–1944), Philosopher
- Vasilij Melik (1921–2009), Historian
- Tamara Griesser Pečar (born 1947), Historian
- Joseph Calasanz, baron Erberg (1771–1843), Botanist, historian, and collector
- Anton Peterlin (1908–1993), Physicist
- Fritz Pregl (1869–1930), Chemist, Nobel prize winner
- Janko Prunk (born 1942), Historian
- Rado Riha (born 1948), Philosopher
- Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641–1693), Scholar, Polymath, Member of the Royal Society
- Milan Vidmar (1885–1962), Electrical engineer, chess player and philosopher
- Renata Salecl (born 1961), Philosopher, sociologist, legal theorist and columnist
- Vasko Simoniti (born 1951), Historian
- Marko Snoj (born 1959), Linguist
- Janez Strnad (born 1934), Physicist and populariser of natural science
- Gregor Tomc (born 1952), Sociologist and musician
- Egon Zakrajšek (1941–2002), Mathematician and computer scientist
- Sigismund Zois (1747–1819), Natural scientist
- Alenka Zupančič, Philosopher
- Slavoj Žižek (born 1949), Sociologist and philosopher
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“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)
“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
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