Scientist
['saɪəntɪst]
Definition
(noun.) a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences.
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Definition
(n.) One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.
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Examples
- But Huygens, the great Dutch scientist, about 1556 was the first to explain the principles and properties of the pendulum as a time measurer and to apply it most successfully to clocks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In the mean time the French scientist obtained radiations from metallic uranium and from uranous salts. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This originality of thought and love of experiment for its own sake were to be chief characteristics of the future scientist. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He felt that science is of no country and that its conquests belong to mankind, but tha t the scientist must be a patriot in the service of his native lan d. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He was a scientist, he had to have a woman to back him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The evidence of this difference between the psychology of the average distinguished scientist and the average member of general society was greatly strengthene d upon cross-examination. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- These men found the famous chemist interested in everything about him, as much of a poet as a scientist. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- One scientist confessed that it was only by a figure of speech that he could describe his recollection of a scene as a mental image to be perceived with the mi nd's eye. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The inventor has become a scientist and a mechanic, and no longer an amateur discoverer. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He has never assumed to be a philosopher or pure scientist. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The scientist shows no rapture for exalted views; in fact, with an instinct for mediocrity, he is envious and strives for the destruction of the exceptional ma n. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- For Nietzsche the scientist is not a heroic superman, but a commonplace type of man, with commonplace virtues. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In 1879 that eminent English scientist, Prof. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The scientist is emotionally impoverished. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It is rather a survey and a description, done with the eye of an artist and the method of a scientist. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And where are the open questions: the issues that everybody should consider, the problems that scientists should study? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Scientists in both England and America had realized the possibility of the telegraph before Morse built his first working outfit in his rooms on Washington Square. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He was not a Plato or an Archimedes, but an efficient officer o f State, conscious of indebtedness to the great scientists and philosophers. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Scientists and inventors now had two forms of electrical machines to produce light: the voltaic battery and the magneto-electric apparatus. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Distinguished scientists from every part of Europe seek him eagerly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He also visited Rome, where he was received with the greatest good-will by Pope Paul V and his cardinals, and where he met the leading scientists of the capital. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In Washington he has made his home, and there scientists of all lands call to pay their respects to the patriarch of American inventors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Galileo determined to study the laws of mechanics by experiment, and not, as so many earlier scientists had done, by argument or mere theoretical opinions. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Must we continue to muddle along in the old ruts, gazing rapturously at an impotent ideal, until the works of the scientists are matured? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Instead of telling business men not to be greedy, we should tell them to be industrial statesmen, applied scientists, and members of a craft. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- To the scientists it would be a challenge--to bring these facts under the light of their researches, to extend these researches to the borders of those facts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Two of these friends, the Duke of Bridgewater and the Earl of Stanhope, were scientists of repute. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It is the work of publicists and educators, scientists, preachers and artists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Scientists and the press reported his invention everywhere. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A country populated by pure logicians and mathematical scientists would, I believe, produce few inventions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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