naturalists

I've noticed this as well and am always reminded of it when I hear certain naturalists talking in such triumphalist terms about how good science is at gathering knowledge.

Adaptationism 2007

Philosophers, who reject the methodological dualism between the human and the natural sciences as argued for in the hermeneutic context, are commonly referred to as naturalists in the philosophy of social science.

Empathy Stueber, Karsten 2008

Even more problematic for the naturalists is the fact once a fossil suddenly appears in the fossil record it remains surprisingly stable in its basic structure for as long as it is found in the fossil record.

Dembski and Common Descent - The Panda's Thumb 2007

But retrospectively it can be seen that the so - called naturalists had their symbolistic side, most strik - ingly Zola.

MOTIF HARRY LEVIN 1968

Here they look so much like a kind of herb, that Folks who make a study of things in nature, and are called naturalists, for a long time took them to be a kind of sea-plant, and for years it was a puzzle as to just what they were.

Lord Dolphin Harriet A. Cheever

The country may truly be called a naturalists 'paradise, for butterflies, beetles, and creeping things are multitudinous, but the climate, with its damp, sickly heat, is wholly unsuited to the Anglo-Saxon.

Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray

There are, he says, four such plans -- four forms on which animals appear to have been modelled, and of which the ulterior divisions, with whatever titles naturalists have decorated them, are only very slight modifications, founded on the development or addition of some parts which do not produce any essential change in the plan.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

They were called naturalists, and the field of their investigations was spoken of as ` ` natural history. ''

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

Generally the naturalists are the strongest; but there are two of the Puritans, whose work if I can succeed in making clearly understandable to you during my three years [183] here, it is all I need care to do.

Selections From the Works of John Ruskin John Ruskin 1859

Generally the naturalists are the strongest; but there are two of the Puritans, whose work if I can succeed in making clearly understandable to you during my three years here, it is all I need care to do.

Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859