Science
- Ethan Allen, co-inventor of the single-action revolver
- Nima Arkani-Hamed, theoretical physicist
- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
- Luther Burbank, horticulturist
- Vannevar Bush, engineer, inventor and science administrator
- Roderick Chisholm, philosopher
- Daniel Dennett, cognitive scientist and philosopher
- Bob Doyle, scientist, inventor, and philosopher
- Benjamin Franklin, scientist and public official
- Robert Goddard, inventor
- Temple Grandin, doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University
- Elias Howe, inventor
- Dan Itse, chemical engineer and NH public official
- Melvin Johnson, prominent firearms designer
- Richard Karp, computer scientist, computational theorist
- Alan Kay, computer scientist
- Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, Jr., mechanical engineer
- Arthur Little, chemist and chemical engineer
- John McCarthy, computer scientist, cognitive scientist
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor and artist
- William T.G. Morton, dentist and physician
- Richard Muther, industrial engineer
- Lloyd Ohlin, sociologist and criminologist
- Gregory Pincus, scientist, developed birth control pill
- Albert Sacco, chemical engineer and Payload Specialist for NASA
- John Henry Schwarz, theoretical physicist
- Andrew Strominger, theoretical physicist
- Benjamin Thompson, physicist and inventor
- Edward Thorndike, psychologist
- Worcester Warner, mechanical engineer, astronomer
- Samuel Wellman, inventor of the crucible steel furnace
- Daniel Wesson, prominent firearms designer
- Eli Whitney, inventor
- Robert Wood, physicist, inventor
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt, astronomer, luminosity of Cepheid variable stars.
- Albert Abraham Michelson, physicist, First American to receive Nobel Prize in Science.
- Percival Lowell, astronomer, Famous for Mars's canals, now discredited.
- William D. Coolidge, physicist.
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.”
—Ralph J. Cudworth (1617–1688)
“The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)