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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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“The present war having so long cut off all communication with Great-Britain, we are not able to make a fair estimate of the state of science in that country. The spirit in which she wages war is the only sample before our eyes, and that does not seem the legitimate offspring either of science or of civilization.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)