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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Famous quotes containing the word scientists:
“Maybe we were the blind mechanics of disaster, but you don’t pin the guilt on the scientists that easily. You might as well pin it on M motherhood.... Every man who ever worked on this thing told you what would happen. The scientists signed petition after petition, but nobody listened. There was a choice. It was build the bombs and use them, or risk that the United States and the Soviet Union and the rest of us would find some way to go on living.”
—John Paxton (1911–1985)
“The myth of motherhood as martyrdom has been bred into women, and behavioral scientists have helped embellish the myth with their ideas of correct “feminine” behavior. If women understand that they do not have to ignore their own needs and desires when they become mothers, that to be self-interested is not to be selfish, it will help them to avoid the trap of overattachment.”
—Grace Baruch (20th century)
“There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.”
—Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)