Science
- Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995), physicist
- Johann Arfvedson (1792–1841), chemist
- Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848), chemist
- Arvid Carlsson (born 1923), neuroscientist, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
- Gustav Cassel (1866–1945), economist
- Anders Celsius (1701–1744), astronomer
- Gustaf Dalén (1869–1937), physicist
- Eva Ekeblad (1724–1786), botanist
- Ulf von Euler (1905–1983), physiologist and pharmacologist
- Eli Heckscher (1879–1952), political economist and economic historian
- Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), botanist
- Lise Meitner (1878–1968), nuclear physicist
- Karl Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987), Nobel Laureate economist, sociologist, and politician
- Christopher Polhem (1661–1751), physicist
- Hans Rosling, professor of international health
- Olaus Rudbeck (1630–1702), medicine
- Johannes Rydberg (1854–1919), physicist
- Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), chemist
- Knut Wicksell (1851–1926), economist
- Oskar Klein (1894–1977), physicist
- Anders Jonas Ångström (1857–1910), physicist
- Alfred Nobel, chemist
- Svante Arrhenius, Nobel prize winning chemist
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat—a boat which, to revert to Neurath’s figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There’s revenge for this humanity. What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)