We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope or even expect but from what we perceive. ~ Humphry Davy - 1778 to 1829
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
Gary Starkweather (born 1938) USA – laser printer color management.
Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692–1761) Netherlands – Leyden jar pyrometer.
John McAdam (1756–1836) Scotland – improved "macadam" road surface.
Pavel Molchanov (1893–1941) Russia – radiosonde.
Gustav de Laval (1845–1913) Sweden – invented the milk separator and the milking machine.
Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk (1927–2006) Russia – 3D holography.
Gilmore Schjeldahl (1912–2002) USA – Airsickness bag.
Stanley Mazor (1941–) USA – microprocessor.
Alfred Traeger (1895–1980) Australia – Pedal radio.
Miriam Benjamin (1861–1947) Washington D.C. – Gong and signal chair (adopted by House of Representatives and precursor to flight attendant signal system).
Daniel David Palmer (1845–1913) Canada – chiropractic.
Alexey Pajitnov (born 1956) Russia/USA – Tetris.
James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) and Thomas Sutton Scotland – color photography.
Jonas Edward Salk (1914–1995) USA – injection Polio vaccine.
Charles Francis Richter (1900–1985) USA – Richter magnitude scale.
Thomas J. Fogarty (born 1934) USA – Embolectomy catheter (medicine).
Joseph Day (1855–1946) UK – the crankcase-compression two-stroke engine.
Robert Goddard (1882–1945) USA – liquid fuel rocket.
Willard Frank Libby (1908–1980) USA – radiocarbon dating.
Samuel Morse (1791–1872) USA – telegraph early Morse code see also Morse Code controversy.
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Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being. ~ William Ramsay - 1852 to 1916
Division is esteemed one of the busiest operations of Arithmetic and such as requireth a mind not wandering or settled upon other matters. ~ Thomas Hylles The arte of vulgar arithmeticke 1600 - Mathematician
Primates are visual animals above all and anatomical work in particular is as much pictorial as verbal. ~ Stephen Jay Gould 1941 to 2002 - Paleontologist
I see some parallels between the shifts of fashion in mathematics and in music. In music the popular new styles of jazz and rock became fashionable a little earlier than the new mathematical styles of chaos and complexity theory. Jazz and rock were long despised by classical musicians but have emerged as art-forms more accessible than classical music to a wide section of the public. Jazz and rock are no longer to be despised as passing fads. Neither are chaos and complexity theory. But still classical music and classical mathematics are not dead. Mozart lives and so does Euler. When the wheel of fashion turns once more quantum mechanics and hard analysis will once again be in style. ~ Freeman Dyson b. 1923 - Mathematician and Physicist
Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one. - Victor Scheffer 1906 to 2011 Biologist
I am not insensible of the advantage which accrues to Applied Mathematics from the co-operation of the Pure Mathematician and this co-operation is not infrequently called forth by the very imperfections of writers on Applied Mathematics. ~ Ronald Fisher 1890 – 1962 - Mathematician Statistician Evolutionary Biologist
The time however has arrived when biology must like the other sciences make a fresh start in a purely speculative direction free from all entanglement with medical or any other art. ~ Auguste Compte 1798 to 1857 - Philosopher of Science
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