Sentence examples for earnest scientists from inspiring English sources

He played earnest scientists in science fiction/horror films: "Killers From Space" (1954), "It Conquered the World" (1956) and "Beginning of the End" (1957, about giant grasshoppers in Chicago).

Scientists have been debating whether the Bogdanov brothers are really geniuses with a new view of the moment before the universe began or simply earnest scientists who are in over their heads and spouting nonsense.

According to Hallenbeck, many US critics found Brian Donlevy's gruff Quatermass a breath of fresh air from the earnest hero scientists of American science fiction films, such as Gene Barry's character in War of the Worlds.

Chiwetel Ejiofor plays an earnest government scientist who realises that the earth's core temperature is overheating, as apparently smugly predicted by the ancient Mayans.

Cast out of Asgard by his exasperated father Odin Anthony Hopkinss), he crash-lands in the desert where he is promptly run over by Jane Natalie Portmann), an earnest young scientist.

AS the first chill of winter descends on the Northeast and the traditional cold-weather codfish run starts in earnest, fishermen and scientists are again at odds, debating whether the once fantastically abundant North Atlantic codfish populations are finally rebuilding — or hurtling inextricably toward collapse.

But Mr. Ettinger's earnest vision of future scientists cracking the secret of immortality and bringing back to life the deep-frozen dead — curing them and making them young again — struck that sweet spot between kooky and quasi-scientific that television talk-show hosts loved in the early 1960s.

At 49, earnest and nervous, a scientist and a mother, she brought to mind the pioneering heroism of a Madame Curie, the dogged faith of a Joan of Arc.

And Marco, a scientist with earnest brown eyes and more degrees than a thermometer, would like to explain it all to you.

He wrote his poems and historical novels 40 years before Charles Darwin described the process of evolution -- and well over a century before scientists began in earnest to apply principles of natural selection to the study of human nature.

Two decades ago, as scientists began in earnest to consider biological responses to changing climate, the dominant theme that emerged focused on the needs for species to either track the climate they favored as those conditions shifted across the landscape, or to tolerate the new conditions in situ via phenotypically plastic traits.