Engineers, Inventors and Scientists
- William Cornwallis Harris (1807–1848), English military engineer, artist and hunter
- Sir William Gordon Harris (1912–2005), British civil engineer
- William Snow Harris (1791–1867), invented a ship-borne lightning rod
- William Harris, former director general of Science Foundation Ireland
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Famous quotes containing the words inventors and/or scientists:
“In America, the geography is sublime, but the men are not: the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Y’know scientists are funny. We probe and measure and dissect. Invent lights without heat, weigh a caterpillar’s eyebrow. But when it comes to really important things we’re as stupid as the caveman.... Like love. Makes the world go ‘round, but what do we know about it? Is it a fact? Is it chemistry? Electricity?”
—Martin Berkeley, and Jack Arnold. Helen Dobson (Lori Nelson)