Sciences
- William Watson (botanist) (1858–1925), British botanist and horticulturalist
- William Watson (scientist) (1715–1787), English physician and scientist
- William Watson (surveyor and scientist) (1784–1857), cartographer and sundial-maker from Seaton Ross
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“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)