All increasing or dominant species (and it is from these that new species arise) vary considerably in all their parts organs and faculties in every generation. ~ Alfred Russel Wallace 1823 to 1913 - Zoologist Evolutionary Biologist
We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope or even expect but from what we perceive. ~ Humphry Davy - 1778 to 1829
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Croatia/Serbia – induction motor high-voltage / high-frequency power experiments the transmission of electrical power.
Samuel Face (1923–2001) USA – concrete flatness/levelness technology; Lightning Switch.
William R. Bennett Jr. (1930–2008) together with Ali Javan (1926–) USA/Iran – Gas laser (Helium-Neon).
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901–1958) USA – Cyclotron.
Willard Frank Libby (1908–1980) USA – radiocarbon dating.
Edwin Beard Budding (1795–1846) UK – lawnmower.
Ralph H. Baer (1922-December 6 2014) German born American – video game console.
Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917) Germany – a.o. Fluorescein synthetic Indigo dye Phenolphthalein.
Richard James Burgess (born 1949) UK – Simmons (electronic drum company) co-inventor of SDS5 drum synthesizer.
Anders Knutsson Ångström (1888–1981) Sweden – Pyranometer.
Leo Baekeland (1863–1944) Belgian–American – Velox photographic paper and Bakelite.
Aeneas Coffey (1780–1852) Ireland – heat exchanger Coffey still.
Herbert Boyer (born 1936) together with Paul Berg (1926–) and Stanley Norman Cohen (1935–) USA – created first Genetically modified organism.
Aldred Scott Warthin (1866–1931) together with Allen Chronister Starry (1890–1973) USA – Warthin–Starry stain (histology).
Victor Hasselblad (1906–1978) Sweden – invented the 6 x 6 cm single-lens reflex camera.
Erna Schneider Hoover (born 1926) USA – computerized telephone switching system.
John Logie Baird (1888–1946) Scotland – an electromechanical television electronic color television.
Henry Maudslay (1771–1831) UK – screw-cutting lathe bench micrometer.
Elijah McCoy (1843–1929) Canada – Displacement lubricator.
Daniel David Palmer (1845–1913) Canada – chiropractic.
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We cannot define anything precisely! If we attempt to we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers who sit opposite each other one saying to the other ‘You don’t know what you are talking about!’ The second one says ‘What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?’ and so on. ~ Richard Feynman 1918 to 1988
A theory is a supposition which we hope to be true a hypothesis is a supposition which we expect to be useful; fictions belong to the realm of art; if made to intrude elsewhere they become either make-believes or mistakes. - George Johnstone Stoney 1826 to 1911 Physicist
Trial by combat of wits in disputations has no attraction for the seeker after truth; to him the appeal to experiment is the last and only test of the merit of an opinion conjecture or hypotheses. ~ Joseph Mellor - 1869 to 1938
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
The legend that every cipher is breakable is of course absurd though still widespread among people who should know better. ~ J.E. Littlewood 1885 – 1977 - Mathematician
All increasing or dominant species (and it is from these that new species arise) vary considerably in all their parts organs and faculties in every generation. ~ Alfred Russel Wallace 1823 to 1913 - Zoologist Evolutionary Biologist
The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of which if you don’t Nature at once tells you you are wrong. ~ James Clerk Maxwell 1831 to 1879
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