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:
“When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“It is an axiom in political science that unless a people are educated and enlightened it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty or the capacity for self-government.”
—Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836)
“The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... once had a vast and perhaps perfect science of its own, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)