Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...critics, such as Lemaitre and Bourget, are novel-writers, poets, playwrights besides, and therefore in danger of being prejudiced; M. Brunetiere is a critic and nothing else, unless, indeed, his desire to propagate pure science and his intimate knowlege of life lead us to think of him as a scientist and a philosoper, both of which titles he disclaims...
...been unable to take charge of the trips in person, and the announcement made this morning is consequently very gratifying. We cannot dwell too strongly upon the profit and enjoyment to be gained from a geological excursion under Professor Shaler, who is at the same time an eminent scientist and a delightful companion...
...XVIII century in Russia. Peter I to Catherine II. The Academy of Science. Lomonossov,- the scientist, the poet. Russian pseudo-classicism,- Loumarokov, Trediakovsky. Accession of Catherine the Great. French philosophy in Russia. Pseudo-classical literature...
...collection appeals to the veriest ignoramus as well as to the genuine scientist. It is a remarkably artistic bit of work and displays fine workmanship...
Leonardo da Vinci was the first of the great Venetian painters. He has been called an idealist, a realist, a dreamer and a scientist. A scientist he certainly was, and it is to be greatly lamented, for it caused him to attempt much, and to finish little. His many and various tastes urged him different ways. He looked too deeply into the "well spring of truth," and in striving after the unobtainable, he left behind him a life of singular incompleteness, but of vast promise. He was neither religionist nor classicist, and looked at things coldly and scientifically...