Sentence examples for theoretical thinker from inspiring English sources

Crick himself intuited many of the principles and protocols governing this process, leading molecular biology forward as "the dominant theoretical thinker, the best guesser, the indefatigable skeptic, the loudest debater, the conductor of the scientific orchestra".

Political writer Howard Fineman has said that, "Biden is not an academic, he's not a theoretical thinker, he's a great street pol.

Scholars and historians of anarchism viewed her as a great speaker and activist, but did not regard her as a philosophical or theoretical thinker on par with, for instance, Kropotkin.

Oxford colleges are run by retired civil servants, ex-UN bureaucrats, former barristers and, of course, magnificent theoretical thinkers.

The combination of theoretical and practical gave Western thinkers an edge over purer reasoning schemes in India and China.

Steiner begins "Venus in Exile" at the end of the 18th century, when Enlightenment thinkers first formulated theoretical expressions of "disgust toward women and the bourgeoisie".

This parallel between the forms of "sameness" (tong) the Mohists identify and our use of to be strongly suggests that the concept of "sameness" plays a theoretical role for classical Chinese thinkers comparable to that of to be or the copula in European languages.

Norris also draws liberally from his Scholastic background, and frequently uses theoretical tools borrowed from the canonical thinkers taught at the universities, such as Aquinas, Augustine and Suarez.

If those activities don't sound intellectually rigorous enough, there are also presentations with the physicist and string theorist Edward Witten; NASA's chief scientist, Ellen Stofan; the paleoanthropologist Lee Berger; the Nobel-winning theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg; and many other leading thinkers.

Recently, The Atlantic named the theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson one of two dozen "brave thinkers" who are shaping the future.

In this book he skilfully threads together personal recollection with theoretical reflection, drawing on apt quotations from historical thinkers.