Science/medicine
- Nima Arkani-Hamed (born 1972), theoretical physicist
- Angela Belcher (born 1967), materials scientist, biological engineer, MIT professor, MacArthur Fellow
- Bruce Beutler (born 1957), immunologist, geneticist, won Nobel Prize in Medicine
- T. Berry Brazelton (born 1918), pediatrician, author, syndicated columnist
- Michael Glyn Brown (born 1957), hand surgeon
- Michael Stuart Brown (born 1941), Nobel Prize-winning geneticist
- John Cacioppo (born 1951), co-founder of social neuroscience
- Robert Cade (1927–2007), physician, scientist; inventor of Gatorade
- William H. Cade (born 1946), zoologist, evolutionary biologist, authority on mating systems of Orthoptera
- Paul C. W. Chu (born 1941), physicist, leading authority on superconductivity
- Denton Cooley (born 1920), pioneering heart surgeon
- Michael E. DeBakey (1908–2008), pioneering heart surgeon
- Everette Lee DeGolyer (1886–1956), geophysicist, philanthropist
- Robert Dennard (born 1932), computer scientist and inventor
- Bryce DeWitt (1923–2004), physicist, co-developed Wheeler-DeWitt equation ("wave function of the Universe")
- Cécile DeWitt-Morette (born 1922), physicist, mathematician
- Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874–1954), mathematician
- James "Red" Duke (born 1928), physician, professor, journalist
- Helen J. Farabee (1934–1988), pioneer in mental health
- Ralph Feigin (1938–2008), pediatrician, writer, educator, hospital administrator
- Joseph L. Goldstein (born 1940), Nobel Prize-winning geneticist, biochemist
- Cecil Howard Green (1900–2003), geophysicist, founder of Texas Instruments, philanthropist
- G.B. Halsted (1853–1922), mathematician
- M. King Hubbert (1903–1989), geophysicist
- Lane P. Hughston (born 1951), mathematician, physicist, scholar and professor of mathematical finance
- Jack Kilby (1923–2005), electrical engineer; invented integrated circuit, handheld calculator, thermal printer; Nobel Prize Laureate
- R. Bowen Loftin (born 1949), physicist, computer scientist, educator, university president
- Michael Lynn (born 1980), computer security expert
- Eugene McDermott (1899–1973), geophysicist, founder of Texas Instruments, philanthropist
- C. Wright Mills (1916–1962), prominent political sociologist and author
- Oscar Monnig (1902–1999), astronomer and meteoricist
- Robert Lee Moore (1882–1974), mathematician, educator
- Hermann Joseph Muller (1890–1967), geneticist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
- Joseph Nagyvary (born 1934), biochemist, violin maker, Stradivarius researcher
- Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003), physicist and chemist, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
- Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau (1911–2000), chemical engineer; designed the first commercial penicillin production plant
- John Stapp (1910–1999), Air Force officer, researched human transport and safety
- Michael Starbird (born 1948), mathematician, educator
- George Sudarshan (born 1931), physicist, author, University of Texas professor
- John Tate (born 1925), mathematician, Wolf Prize in Mathematics
- Gordon Teal (1907–2003), electrical engineer known for developing the first silicon transistor
- Alice Y. Ting (born 1974), chemist, MIT professor
- Beatrice Tinsley (1941–1981), astronomer
- Karen Uhlenbeck (born 1942), mathematician, National Medal of Science
- Harry Vandiver (1882–1973), mathematician
- Abraham Verghese (born 1955), physician, educator, author
- Hubert Stanley Wall (1902–1971), mathematician, educator
- Steven Weinberg (born 1933), Nobel Laureate in Physics
- Spencer Wells (born 1969), geneticist and anthropologist
- John A. Wheeler (1911–2008), physicist, Wolf Prize in Physics, coined the term 'black hole'
- Robert Woodrow Wilson (born 1936), Nobel Prize-winning physicist, astronomer
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“Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking, love has found. Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short to the spirits everything speaks.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“We gave ‘em wings to fly and they rained death on us. We gave ‘em a voice to be heard around the world and they preach hatred to poison the minds of nations. Even the medicine we gave them to ease their pain is turned into a vice to enslave half mankind for the profit of a few. Ah, Janet, dear, don’t you see? Every gift that science has given them has been twisted into a thing of hate and greed.”
—Karl Brown (1897–1990)