Science and Medicine
- William F. Baker (born 1953), structural engineer
- Gordon Bell (born 1934), computer engineer and microcomputer pioneer
- Herbert Blumer (1900–1987), sociologist, developer of symbolic interactionism
- George Washington Carver (c. 1864–1943), botanist
- Charles Stark Draper (1901–1987), Inventor
- David F. Duncan (born 1947), psychologist and epidemiologist
- Edward T. Hall (1914–2009), anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher
- Edwin Hubble (1889–1953), astronomer
- Harry Laughlin (1880–1943), American eugenicist
- Mark Johnson (born 1949), philosopher
- Virginia Eshelman Johnson (born 1925) psychology researcher
- Jack Kilby (1923–2005), inventor of the integrated circuit
- Ernest Manheim (1900–2002), sociologist
- William Howell Masters (1915–2001), Gynecologist
- Richard Smalley (1943–2005), Nobel Prize-winning chemist, discovered buckminsterfullerene
- William Jasper Spillman (1863–1931), plant geneticist, a founder of agricultural economics
- Lewis Stadler (1896–1954) a.k.a. L.J. Stadler. maize geneticist
- Andrew Taylor Still (1828–1917), physician and founder of osteopathic medicine
- Norbert Wiener (1894–1964), mathematician
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“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstructions in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought so far to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.”
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“Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienest who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous.... The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)