Suppose we have an unknown number of objects. When counted in threes 2 are left over when counted in fives 3 are left over and when counted in sevens 2 are left over. How many objects are there? ~ Sunzi The Mathematical Classic of Sunzi - Chinese mathematics problem from c. 450 AD
There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together. ~ Fred Hoyle 1915 to 2001
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780–1849) Germany – Döbereiner's lamp (chemistry).
Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921–2003) Russia – first space exploration rover (Lunokhod).
Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī (Albatenius) (853-929) Syria/Turkey – observation tube.
John Blenkinsop (1783–1831) UK – Blenkinsop rack railway system.
Albert Coons (1912–1978) USA – Immunofluorescence (microscopy).
Bryan Donkin (1768–1855) UK – print industry composition roller.
Gustav Giemsa (1867–1948) Germany – Giemsa stain (histology).
Al-Ma'mun (786–833) Iraq – singing bird automata terrestrial globe.
Thomas Chang (born 1933) Canada/China – Artificial cell.
Georges Lakhovsky (1869–1942) Russia/USA – Multiple Wave Oscillator.
Ronald Price Hickman (1932–2011) USA - designed the original Lotus Elan the Lotus Elan +2 and the Lotus Europa as well as the Black & Decker Workmate.
Valdemar Poulsen (1869–1942) Denmark – magnetic wire recorder arc converter.
Nikolay Brusentsov (born 1925) Russia – ternary computer (Setun).
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (1860–1935) UK – motion picture camera.
Camillo Golgi (1843–1926) Italy – Golgi's method (histology).
Jacques E. Brandenberger (1872–1954) Switzerland – Cellophane.
Emil Strub (1858–1909) Switzerland – Strub rack railway system.
Ladislas Starevich (1882–1965) Russia/France – puppet animation live-action/animated film.
George William Manby (1765–1854) UK – Fire extinguisher.
Vladimir Chelomey (1914–1984) Russia – first space station (Salyut) Proton rocket (the most used heavy lift launch system).
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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
What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun. - Sir Arthur Eddington 1882 to 1944 Astronomer Physicist Mathematician
Pure mathematics exist by themselves; no will produces them no power can limit them. They are eternal laws that no man can infringe and from which it is impossible to escape. ~ S. Sandaram Iyer 1883 - Philosopher
Outstanding examples of genius – a Mozart a Shakespeare or a Carl Friedrich Gauss – are markers on the path along which our species appears destined to tread. - Fred Hoyle 1915 to 2001 Astrophysicist
In practical applications we are concerned only with comparatively small numbers; only stellar astronomy and atomic physics deal with ‘large’ numbers and they have very little more practical importance as yet than the most abstract pure mathematics. ~ G. H. Hardy 1877 – 1947 - Mathematician
Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken. ~ Humphry Davy - 1778 to 1829
A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high. ~ Isaac Newton 1642 to 1727
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