Scientists and Academics
- John Wilson (mathematician) (1741–1793), English mathematician
- John Wilson (industrial chemist) 1890–1976 (1890–1976), British chemist
- John Wilson (Scottish academic), professor of public policy and management at Glasgow Caledonian University
- John A. Wilson (Egyptologist) (1899–1976), American Egyptologist
- John Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993), Canadian geophysicist
- John T. Wilson (1914–1990), president of the University of Chicago, 1975–1978
- John Wilson Jr. (professor), professor of English in Japan
- John S. Wilson (economist), economist at the World Bank
- John Long Wilson (1914–2001), medical professor and university administrator
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“Y’know scientists are funny. We probe and measure and dissect. Invent lights without heat, weigh a caterpillar’s eyebrow. But when it comes to really important things we’re as stupid as the caveman.... Like love. Makes the world go ‘round, but what do we know about it? Is it a fact? Is it chemistry? Electricity?”
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“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
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