Chemistry unlike other sciences sprang originally from delusions and superstitions and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology. - Thomas Thomson 1773 to 1852 Chemist
Falsity in intellectual action is intellectual immorality. - Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin 1843 to 1928 Geologist


Floyd Paxton (1918–1975) USA – a.o. Bread clip.
Thomas Wedgwood (1771–1805) UK – first (not permanent) photograph.
Walter Frederick Morrison (1920–2010) USA – Flying disc.
John Harington (1561–1612) UK – the flush toilet.
Andrei Sychra (c.1773/76–1850) Lithuania/Russia Czech descent – Russian seven-string guitar.
Norman Wilkinson (1878–1971) UK – Dazzle camouflage.
Oliver Smithies (born 1925) together with Sir Martin John Evans (1941–) and Mario Ramberg Capecchi (1937–) USA – Knockout mouse Gene targeting.
Christopher Cockerell (1910–1999) UK – Hovercraft.
John Barber (1734–1801) UK – gas turbine.
Jagdish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) India – Crescograph.
Karl von Reichenbach (1788–1869) Germany – paraffin creosote oil phenol.
Ernst Karl Abbe (1840–1905) Germany – Condenser (microscope) apochromatic lens refractometer.
Eli Whitney (1765–1825) USA – the cotton gin.
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (1871–1922) Croatia – mechanical pencil.
Hiram Maxim (1840–1916) USA born UK – First self-powered machine gun.
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (1845–1921) France – Lippmann plate Integral imaging Lippmann electrometer.
Su Song (1020–1101) China – first chain drive.
Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) UK – soda water.
Nick Sheridon (1928–1962) USA – Electronic paper.
Dean Kamen (born 1951) USA – Invented the Segway HT scooter and the IBOT Mobility Device.
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Physics is littered with the corpses of dead unified field theories. ~ Freeman Dyson b. 1923
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data and its principles supported by evidence from facts. ~ Michael Faraday - 1791 to 1867
There is no law except the law that there is no law. - John Archibald Wheeler 1911 to 2008 Theoretical Physicist
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
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
There may be babblers wholly ignorant of mathematics who dare to condemn my hypothesis upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not and scorn their unfounded judgment. - Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543 Astronomer Mathematician
Understanding the history of matter and searching for its most interesting forms such as galaxies stars planets and life seems a suitable use for our intelligence. - Robert Kirshner 1949 to present Astronomer
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