Surely it is not knowledge but learning; not owning but earning; not being there but getting there; that gives us the greatest pleasure. ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855 - Mathematician and Physicist
A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it. - Justus von Liebig 1803 to 1873 Chemist
Joseph G. Gall (born 1928) USA – In situ hybridization (cell biology).
Alfred Perot (1863–1925) together with Charles Fabry (1867–1945) France – Fabry–Pérot interferometer (physics).
Jabir ibn Aflah (Geber) (c. 1100–1150) Islamic Spain – portable celestial globe.
Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896) Germany – hang glider.
Nicholas Callan (1799–1864) Ireland – a.o. Induction coil.
Simon Sze (born 1936) Taiwan/USA together with Dawon Kahng (1931–1992) South Korea – Floating-gate MOSFET.
Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995) Canada/USA – side-delivery rodeo chute hornless rodeo saddle rodeo bareback rigging rodeo chaps.
Cyril Duquet (1841–1922) Canada – Telephone handset.
Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1907–1964) Canada – snowmobile.
Jonas Wenström (1855–1893) Sweden – three-phase electrical power.
Robert Metcalfe (born 1946) USA – Ethernet.
Ridgway Banks inventor of the Banks Engine a Nitinol based solid state heat engine.
John Bennett Fenn (1917–2010) USA – Electrospray ionization.
Jimmy Hotz (born 1953) USA – Hotz MIDI Translator Atari Hotz Box.
Zheng He (1371–1433) China – Chinese treasure ship.
Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir (1822–1900) Belgium – internal combustion engine motorboat.
Albert Hofmann (1906–2008) Switzerland – LSD.
Alexander Procofieff de Seversky (1894–1974) Russia/United States of America – first gyroscopically stabilized bombsight ionocraft also developed air-to-air refueling.
Rostislav Alexeyev (1916–1980) Russia – ekranoplan.
Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863) Italy – Dipleidoscope Amici prism.
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If physics and biology one day meet and one of the two is swallowed up that one will be biology. ~ J. B. S. Haldane 1892 to 1964 - Biologist
It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries which later appear so easy and simple. - Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742 to 1799 Physicist
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer. - Max Planck 1858 to 1947 Theoretical Physicist
The literary convention that numbers less than 10 should be given in words is often highly unsuitable in mathematics… The excessive use of the word forms is regrettably spreading at the present time. ~ J.E. Littlewood 1885 – 1977 - Mathematician
Although the alternate ‘wax and wane’ cycles are the rule rather than the exception in all fields of human endeavor in that of biological sciences the ‘wane’ is all too often indicative of a justified loss of faith in the rational and methodical approach that had at first raised so much hope. ~ Rita Levi-Montalcini 1909 to 2012 Neurobiologist
It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine. - Steven Weinberg 1933 to present Theoretical Physicist
Falsity in intellectual action is intellectual immorality. - Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin 1843 to 1928 Geologist
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