Science
- Robert R. Wilson (1914–2000), American physicist
- Robert Wilson (astronomer) (1927–2002), British astronomer
- Robert Woodrow Wilson (born 1936), American astronomer and 1978 Nobel laureate in physics
- Robert Arnott Wilson (born 1958), British mathematician
- Robert Dick Wilson (1856–1930), American linguist and Presbyterian scholar
- Robert B. Wilson (born 1937), American economist and professor at Stanford University
- Robert Wilson (engineer) (1803–1882), Scottish engineer; inventor of the first practical screw propeller
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“Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (18581915)
“We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms.... Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)
“Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)