scientist

[Sci·en*tist]

A scientist is a person with some kind of knowledge or expertise in any of the sciences, like biology or chemistry. See that guy in the white lab coat wearing pocket protectors and experimenting with chemicals? He’s definitely a scientist.

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One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.

Noun
a person with advanced knowledge of one of more sciences


n.
One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.


Scientist

Sci"en*tist , n. One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant. [Recent] &hand; Twenty years ago I ventured to propose one [a name for the class of men who give their lives to scientific study] which has been slowly finding its way to general adoption; and the word scientist, though scarcely euphonious, has gradually assumed its place in our vocabulary. B. A. Gould (Address, 1869).

One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.

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Usage Examples

I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny. I started doing stand-up to add another level to my game. I feel that I'm a young rookie with a veteran's skill.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

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Other Usage Examples

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

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