Sentence examples for scientific temperament from inspiring English sources

"Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time," he said.

Some of his choices are typically poetic ("golden," "wind," "alabaster"), others speak to his scientific temperament ("astrolabe," "terraqueous," "sublunary," "alembic"), and others — the most appealing — feel purely idiosyncratic ("begrime," "diapason," "inspissated").

The modern scientific temperament came eventually to be identified with Empiricism.

AMIABLY AGGRESSIVE, Barzilai credits his military service with shaping his scientific temperament and administrative mettle.

Novice students began to develop elements of a scientific temperament as they gained patience in the face of setbacks or failures in research and came to understand the slowness and ambiguity of scientific research.

Part of our job as advisors is to figure out the scientific temperament of the trainees in the lab, and to help them find the right type of science for them.

Almost no one, meanwhile, wants to answer the question definitively, because, for a critic, alternating between one's artistic and scientific temperaments is fun — it's like switching between the ocean and the sun at the beach.

If it were as simple as saying that a high-reactive infant will become a behaviorally inhibited child who will become an anxious adult, all the scientific work on temperament would amount to little more than charting horoscopes.

SM: While it's true that I do not need to have a doctorate in psychoacoustics to do what I'm doing now, my scientific background and temperament absolutely influence my work as a singer.

A belief in God and a divine moral code does not stop people developing scientific and rationalist temperaments.

And every one is grown with such scientific precision and artistic temperament that what comes from it is something a home cook, even one with a garden out back, will never see.