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:
“When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“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)