Sciences
- Sidney Altman, Nobel Prize winner
- Pierre Dansereau, father of ecology
- Paul David, cardiologist
- George Mercer Dawson, scientist
- Reginald Fessenden, inventor
- Armand Frappier, researcher in microbiology and immunology
- David H. Levy, astronomer
- William Edmond Logan, geologist
- Rudolph A. Marcus, 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Wilder Penfield, neurosurgeon, medical scientist
- Simon Plouffe (1956- ), mathematician & discoverer of the BBP formula
- Hubert Reeves (1932- ), astrophysicist
- Marc Garneau (1949- ), astronaut, first Quebecer & Canadian in space
- Julie Payette (1963- ), astronaut, first Quebec woman in space
- Henri Wittmann, linguist
- Hans Selye, inventor of the concept of physiological stress
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Famous quotes containing the word sciences:
“I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“The well-educated young woman of 1950 will blend art and sciences in a way we do not dream of; the science will steady the art and the art will give charm to the science. This young woman will marry—yes, indeed, but she will take her pick of men, who will by that time have begun to realize what sort of men it behooves them to be.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)