Sentence examples for gentleman scientists from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

One house in Tuxedo park was the home of Alfred Lee Loomis, the last independent gentleman scientist, who established a well-known private research laboratory in the nearby Spencer Trask mansion.

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.

In contrast to his contemporary Charles Darwin, whose private income allowed him to be a gentleman scientist, Mendel's modest family circumstances meant the church offered the only way to intellectual salvation.

Having invented a machine capable of moving through the fourth dimension, a gentleman scientist journeys to the distant future where he discovers that mankind has evolved in disturbing ways.