Science
- Eugene Aserinsky, discovered REM sleep
- Maurice Brooks, ornithologist
- Homer Hickam, former NASA engineer
- Mahlon Loomis, inventor of the wireless telegraph
- Jon McBride, NASA astronaut, pilot of Challenger mission STS 41-G
- Adrian Melott, physicist and cosmologist
- George A. Miller, psychologist and cognitive scientist
- John Forbes Nash, mathematician
- James Rumsey, inventor and mechanical engineer
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will be served by her. When the sunshine falls on the path of the poet, he enjoys all those pure benefits and pleasures which the arts slowly and partially realize from age to age. The winds which fan his cheek waft him the sum of that profit and happiness which their lagging inventions supply.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)