theoretician

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  1. noun One who formulates, studies, or is expert in the theory of a science or an art.

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  • As soon as the theoretician attemptsto take account of so-called 'utility' and 'reality' instead of the absolutetruth, his work will cease to be a polar star of seeking humanity and insteadwill become a prescription for everyday life. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: The Beginning of My Political Activity
  • Then he will still be more suited for leadership than the unworldly theoretician, who is ignorant of people. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: Propaganda and Organization
  • She is a geneticist, a bench scientist as well as a theoretician, and a fount of knowledge. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 06 - December 2001
  • It is hair-splitting and shadow-boxing when some antiquatedfolkish theoretician, whose practical successes stand in inverse proportionto his wisdom, imagines that he can change the party character which everyyoung movement possesses by changing this term. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: The First Period of Development of the National Socialist German Workers' Party
  • The wiry geologist was an expert field man as well as a theoretician. —  025 - Land of Always-Night
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