Sentence examples for devotee of science from inspiring English sources

So it's hell". But he is a devotee of science fiction and cites as an influence Roadside Picnic, the 1971 Russian novel about the traces left on Earth by an alien visitation.

"When Napoleon imagined his life in the United States, it was as a private individual and devotee of science," writes Ines Murat, author of "Napoleon and the American Dream". According to one account, related by NPR, Napoleon was already reading a book about the botany and geography of the Americas as Prussian troops approached his residence near Paris.

The conceit of vegetable sympathy, of someone who could love each tree "as if it had been his own child" was pushed further and further, and then flipped over altogether into a parable about malevolent possession - in this case the malignant fate determined for his daughter by the arch-devotee of science, Dr Rappaccini.

No doubt devotees of science and rationality will continue to call for a religion-free politics.

Updike began by offering this overview of Le Guin's career: Ursula K. Le Guin has for fifteen years been familiar to devotees of science fiction, but only recently has her reputation, passing through the same cultural space warp utilized by Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut, entered what is hailed from the other side as "mainstream fiction".

(Devotees of Mystery Science Theater 3000 will love it).

And if he is a devotee of the new science, he often appears an uncertain one, recognizing profound difficulties in it.

A devotee of the arts and sciences, Pál also wrote several religious works.

Ray Kurzweil, a pioneer of computer science and a devotee of exponential technological extrapolation, likes to talk of "the second half of the chess board".

A keen devotee of modern football techniques and sports science, he has forged a close bond with his players, perhaps best exemplified by the manner in which the unpredictable and temperamental Lafferty, prone to indiscipline, has become the symbol of his and Northern Ireland's success.

In truth, though, the history of science is rooted in research carried out by independent devotees, driven by resourcefulness, passion and curiosity.