scientist

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Just as murder for the scientist is a thirst for absolute destruction, just as theft for the scientist is a hunger for monotonous acquisition, so polygamy for the scientist is an extreme development of the instinct for variety.

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  1. noun A person having expert knowledge of one or more sciences, especially a natural or physical science.

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  • Less weight, in fact, because our scientist is an "expert" and therefore, an "elitist."
  • Zulerich, having no other home, stayed in the palace and Rhuh, curious as to what the scientist was about, stayed to watch him. —  Wonder Story Annual - 1950
  • This scientist was the most brilliant lecturer to whom I ever listened. —  The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla
  • Simply because a scientist is associated with an organization that has (or is) taking money from the fossil fuel industry does not mean the scientist is unethical any more than the scientist who is associated with an organization that receives money from companies that have a large financial interest in policies related to reducing the magnitude of AGW. —  RealClimate
  • The private researchers are where the profit for the scientist is the greatest, and also where the bias is more heavily introduced (Pay for most PhDs is in the range of 85-120K). —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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  1. from scient + -ist. In this word, and in scientism, scientician, the base is formally scient as given, but it is practically scient -, the base of Latin scientia, science; scientist being equivalent to *sciencist, from science + -ist.
 

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