Sentence examples for gentleman scientist from inspiring English sources

"He was a gentleman scientist, a polymath," says Gregory, "but he was also prepared to get into this tiny thing and shoot up into the stratosphere.

Does the fact that he was also a gentleman scientist with innovative taxonomical ideas make his assertions about race any less odious?

"Notes," after all, was the work of a controversial Democratic president, a gentleman scientist perpetually struggling with money problems and charges of godlessness.

Mendel put his background as a son of the soil to good use, becoming not so much a gentleman scientist as a market garden scientist.

Galton might have puttered along for the rest of his life as a minor gentleman scientist had it not been for a dramatic event: the publication of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," in 1859.

The first time it happened was in 1779, when a geologist called Edward King suggested that reviewers of his latest work might benefit from reading another — by the noted gentleman scientist Edward King.

BRITAIN'S most famous scientific forum, the Royal Society, was founded in 1660 as a club for gentleman scientists.

This whiggish view of progress led by gentleman scientists punctuating intellectual doldrums is a simplistic, clean narrative, but it's just not how science works.

Kellogg is perhaps the book's most intellectually intriguing character, acting as a bridge between the gentleman scientists of the 19th century who had the luxury to leisurely catalog the world's natural abundance and the conservation-minded biologists of the 20th who could see their research subjects vanishing before their very eyes.

Charles Darwin was one of a last generation of gentleman scientists.

But, with the ageing of the last great generalists, such as Sir David Attenborough, academics warn the all-round naturalist is in danger of becoming as much part of history as the Edwardian gentlemen scientist – and with that comes the risk overspecialisation and key trends and discoveries missed.