Science
- John Bardeen (1977)
- Rachel Carson (1980, posthumously)
- Francis Collins (2007)
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1985)
- Stephen Hawking (2009)
- Clarence Johnson (1964)
- Mathilde Krim (2000)
- Joshua Lederberg (2006)
- George Low (1985, posthumously)
- Margaret Mead (1979, posthumously)
- Lewis Mumford (1964)
- Simon Ramo (1983)
- Edward Teller (2003)
- Alan Tower Waterman (1963)
- James D. Watson (1977)
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms.... Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)
“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstructions in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought so far to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, to-day in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be regarded as a bête noire the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!”
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)