Scientists
- Robert Boyd (stenographer) (1870–?), inventor of Boyd's Syllabic Shorthand
- Robert A. Boyd (1918–2006), leader of the James Bay hydroelectric project
- Robert W. Boyd, scientist and author of Nonlinear Optics
- Robert Boyd (physicist) (1922–2004), pioneer of British space science
- Robert Boyd (paediatrician) (born 1938), British paediatrician
- Robert Boyd (anthropologist) (born 1948), American anthropologist
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“Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can’t tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.”
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