I believe there are 15 747 724 136 275 002 577 605 653 961 181 555 468 044 717 914 527 116 709 366 231 425 076 185 631 031 296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons. - Sir Arthur Eddington 1882 to 1944 Astronomer Physicist Mathematician
Our thoughts visions and fantasies have a physical reality. A thought is made of hundreds of electrochemical impulses. ~ Carl Sagan 1934 to 1996 Astrobiologist Planetary Scientist
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926) Netherlands – liquid helium.
Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973–1025) Japan – psychological novel.
Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) Scotland – penicillin.
Gleb Kotelnikov (1872–1944) Russia – knapsack parachute drogue parachute.
Kenyon Taylor (inv. 1961) USA – Flip-disc display.
Francis Beaufort (1774–1857) Ireland/UK – Beaufort scale Beaufort cipher.
Hippolyte Pixii (1808–1835) France – Pixii dynamo.
Sergey Brin (born 1973) Russia/USA – with Larry Page invented Google web search engine.
Norman Gaylord (1923–2007) USA – rigid gas-permeable contact lens.
William Lee (1563–1614) UK – Stocking frame knitting machine.
Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī (973–1048) Persia/Iran – mechanical geared lunisolar calendar laboratory and surveying equipment..
Alfred Binet (1857–1911) France – with his student Théodore Simon (1872–1961) first practical Intelligence test.
Alexander Coucoulas (1933-) USA - Thermosonic Bonding.
Richard F. Lyon (1952–) USA – Optical mouse.
Percy Spencer (1894–1970) USA – microwave oven.
Andreas Stihl (1896–1973) Switzerland/Germany – Electric chain saw.
Helge Palmcrantz (1842–1880) Sweden – the multi-barrel lever-actuated machine gun.
Gustav Tauschek (1899–1945) Austria – Drum memory.
Albert Coons (1912–1978) USA – Immunofluorescence (microscopy).
John Thompson Dorrance (1873–1930) USA – Condensed soup.
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Nearly 2.5 billion years of prokaryotic cells and nothing else – two-thirds of life’s history in stasis at the lowest level of recorded complexity… Why did life remain at stage 1 for two-thirds of its history if complexity offers such benefits? ~ Stephen Jay Gould 1941 to 2002 - Paleontologist
In our work we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough and miss important physics or we may abstract too much and end up with fictitious objects in our models turning into real monsters that devour us. ~ Murray Gell-Mann b. 1929
What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. Roughly speaking people know that it deals with numbers figures with relations operations and that its formal procedures involving axioms proofs lemmas theorems have not changed since the time of Archimedes. ~ Stan Ulam 1909 – 1984 - Mathematician
Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think. - Jacob Bronowski 1908 to 1974 Mathematician Biologist
In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature modern physics has found that certain things can never be “known” with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities. ~ Richard Feynman 1918 to 1988
Why the dinosaurs died out is not known but it is supposed to be because they had minute brains and devoted themselves to the growth of weapons of offense in the shape of numerous horns. ~ Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970 - Mathematician and Philosopher
On the principle of successive variations not always supervening at an early age and being inherited at a corresponding not early period of life we can clearly see why the embryos of mammals birds reptiles and fishes should be so closely alike and should be so unlike the adult forms. ~ Charles Darwin 1809 to 1882 - Naturalist Evolutionary Biologist
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