Sciences
- Sidney Altman, Nobel Prize winner
- Pierre Dansereau, father of ecology
- Paul David, cardiologist
- George Mercer Dawson, scientist
- Reginald Fessenden, inventor
- Armand Frappier, researcher in microbiology and immunology
- David H. Levy, astronomer
- William Edmond Logan, geologist
- Rudolph A. Marcus, 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Wilder Penfield, neurosurgeon, medical scientist
- Simon Plouffe (1956- ), mathematician & discoverer of the BBP formula
- Hubert Reeves (1932- ), astrophysicist
- Marc Garneau (1949- ), astronaut, first Quebecer & Canadian in space
- Julie Payette (1963- ), astronaut, first Quebec woman in space
- Henri Wittmann, linguist
- Hans Selye, inventor of the concept of physiological stress
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“The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.”
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“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.”
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