Example Sentences

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“I think it will be a long time before you see python burgers served up at your favorite local restaurant here,” study co-author Rick Shine, a natural scientist at Macquarie University, said in a statement.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2024

Potter, who was born in 1866 and died in 1943, remains best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale Of Peter Rabbit, but was also a prominent natural scientist and conservationist.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2021

As a natural scientist, I find a version of panpsychism modified for the 21st century to be the single most elegant and parsimonious explanation for the universe I find myself in.

From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2014

Only Abigail is a fully fledged personality; yet, rather implausibly, she is something of a natural scientist herself.

From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2013

In French, physicien had never been a term used for doctors, so the word was conveniently available to mean a natural scientist, and then to evolve to become the French equivalent for ‘physicist’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton