Sentence examples for small scientists from inspiring English sources

My sister Alison is one of the leading developmental psychologists in the country, a co-author of the "theory theory" of child development — the belief that children are not like small flowers unfolding but like small scientists at work, making hypotheses about the world, testing them through play and observation, and then replacing them with better theories as they go on.

But the impacts are likely to be very small, scientists believe, and the expectation is that all the mission's chief objectives will still be met.

Because individual atoms are exceptionally small, scientists typically work with atoms in larger quantities called moles.

When we insist, as all the wisest child psychologists do now, that every child is like a small scientist, we don't mean that she has esoteric knowledge of a broad range of subjects, or talks to angels, or makes lead into gold.

For the smallest scientists, the room includes easy jigsaw puzzles patterned after the museum's dioramas.

In the race to make computer chips that are ever faster and ever smaller, scientists at Harvard University have grown tiny crystal rods of silicon and other semiconductors, then sluiced them onto chips to form rudimentary circuits that perform basic logic operations.

That, in turn, may render chemical bonds shorter and stronger, making molecules trapped within such fields as much as 25% smaller, scientists estimate.

This, and the focus on small businesses, scientists and innovators, making things and selling real services and products, were the best parts of the speech.

The problem is the patches, often referred to collectively as "quantum foam," are so small that scientists have sometimes despaired of ever testing the theory.

In one small study, scientists compared diabetic patients and a group of healthy control subjects as they were exposed to increasing temperatures.

The organic transistors are about as small as scientists think conventional transistors can get the size of individual molecules perhaps paving the way for new high-speed computers.