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)
“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.”
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