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Example sentences for "physicist"

Lexicographically close words:
physica; physical; physically; physician; physicians; physicists; physicked; physicking; physicochemical; physics
  1. That is not enough," his physicist replies; "it might do for Democritus and the mathematicians, but I must have something more.

  2. Tertullian, moreover, was quite a physicist in the definiteness of his conceptions regarding the soul.

  3. Linister daily impressed it upon me--that of all occupations, that of Physicist would very quickly become the most important.

  4. But the Director sprang to his feet, and grasped his brother physicist by the hand.

  5. Physicist and Arch Physician of the Holy College of the Inner House.

  6. Linister's powers as a physicist were of the first order, nor that his Discoveries warranted his election to the Headship of the College.

  7. Holy and Sacrosanct Chief Physicist is what he will be, with the rank of prince.

  8. This is what a physicist or a chemist would expect.

  9. There was never a more careful scientific investigation than that by which a French physicist thought he had established the existence of what he called the "N ray"--examined its properties and measured its constants.

  10. The chemist or physicist will tell you the wondrous story that the black substance which you burn is simply so much light and heat and motion borrowed from the sun and invested in the tissues of plants.

  11. We need merely call to mind the case of the illustrious physicist whom we have so recently and suddenly lost.

  12. Russel Wallace, and the no less celebrated physicist Wm.

  13. The celebrated chemist and physicist =Joseph Priestley=, A.

  14. The physicist distinguishes three conditions of inorganic matter--solid, fluid, and gaseous.

  15. THE ETHER OF SPACE Illustrated "This work by the great physicist will be found to possess an abiding charm and an intellectual stimulation.

  16. Every day the physicist is confronted in his workshop with the most beautiful vibration-figures, tone-figures, phenomena of polarisation, and forms of diffraction.

  17. No physicist who has ever studied waves of sound or photographed them will have the least doubt regarding the sound-wave character of the atmospheric condensation encompassing the head of a flying projectile.

  18. The concept is to the physicist what a musical note is to a piano-player.

  19. The physicist who sees a body flexed, stretched, melted, and vaporised, cuts up this body into smaller permanent parts; the chemist splits it up into elements.

  20. The physicist who examines the head-wave and recognises its sound-wave character also sees that the wave in question is of the same kind with the short sharp waves produced by electric sparks, that it is a noise-wave.

  21. Body, as a compound of light and touch sensations, knit together by sensations of space, must be as familiar to the physicist who seeks it, as to the animal who hunts its prey.

  22. But the physicist knows that it is one of the most difficult.

  23. A trained physicist or mathematician reads a memoir like a musician reads a score.

  24. To-day, both the musician and the physicist know that the harmonic or the melodic addition of one tone to another affects us agreeably only when the added tone reproduces a part of the sensation which the first one excited.

  25. The wisest physicist of to-day will assure you that he knows absolutely nothing of the why of gravitation--that he can no more explain why a stone tossed into the air falls back to earth than can the boy who tosses the stone.

  26. That is a question as full of fascination for the physicist as the north-pole mystery has ever been for the generality of mankind.

  27. His entire doctrine may be fairly, indeed amply gathered in the following quotations: "We continue by our observations and experiments the work of the physiologist, who has himself employed that of the physicist and the chemist.

  28. In a word, we should work upon characters, passions, human and social facts, as the physicist and chemist work with inorganic bodies, as the physiologist works with living organisms.

  29. The physical universe of the ancient (and modern) Hindu physicist was made up of these four kinds or planes of matter, distributed in space as "globes within globes.

  30. Ask the ablest living geographer or physicist to prove to you that the earth revolves daily and he will reply that it would be the job of his life.

  31. Sir Oliver Lodge, famous physicist that he is, yet has a vein of mysticism and idealism in him which sometimes makes him recoil from the hard-and-fast interpretations of natural phenomena by physical science.

  32. Sir Oliver is an eminent physicist who in his conception of the totality of things is yet a thoroughgoing idealist and mystic.

  33. A French physicist conceives of the electrons as rushing about in the interior of the atom like swarms of gnats whirling about in the dome of a cathedral.

  34. Thus the physicist deals with a quantity of matter a million million times smaller than can be detected in the most delicate chemical balance.

  35. The physicist describes the atom and talks about it as if it were "a tangible body which one could hold in his hand like a baseball.

  36. Both the chemist and the physicist are as convinced of the existence of these atoms as they are of the objects we see and touch.

  37. The guesses have been widely various, from unity to many hundreds, but, unacquainted with the clairvoyant method, the ordinary physicist has no means of reaching the actual state of the facts.

  38. The physicist had a special term for what we know as ultra-violet light.

  39. This great physicist had proved that cathode rays are composed not of negatively charged molecules, as had been supposed, but of much smaller particles or corpuscles.

  40. Just as the lenses of the physicist are constructed in accordance with the laws of the refraction of light, so the pedagogic instrument should be based on the psychical manifestations of the child.

  41. Let us call to mind what a physicist does to place an instrument absolutely level; how patiently he turns first one screw and then another, tries again and again, slowly and carefully: and to what end?

  42. Here lies one of the best clues for the physicist who seeks the cause of magnetism, and attempts to produce it, as Barnett has recently succeeded in doing, by rapidly whirling masses of metal in the laboratory.

  43. The physicist has the advantage of complete control over the experimental conditions, while the astrophysicist must observe and interpret the experiments performed for him in remote laboratories.

  44. In the present case we are indebted for our star-measuring device to the distinguished physicist Professor Albert A.

  45. Here the physicist and chemist of the future will more and more frequently supplement their terrestrial apparatus, and find new clues to the complex problems which the amazing progress of recent years has already done so much to solve.

  46. The fundamental principle of the device was first suggested by the great French physicist Fizeau in 1868.

  47. It is I fear a problem rather for the physicist than for the biologist.

  48. The chemist has only to dig deep enough to find that the physicist and himself occupy common ground.

  49. A galvanometer actuated by a thermo-electric pile furnishes much the most sensitive means of detecting changes of temperature; hence electricity enables the physicist to study the phenomena of heat with new ease and precision.

  50. None of any importance," the big physicist boomed.

  51. Hobart Zircon, the huge, bearded senior physicist and associate director of the Foundation, looked at the model in company with Tony Briotti, the youthful staff archaeologist.

  52. We used scarcely any power at all coming out, and I'm not using very much going back," the physicist explained rapidly, as he set the dials which would determine their flashing course.

  53. Facing the unknown though the physicist was, yet he grinned whimsically at his friend.

  54. And yet, had not the physicist dimly foreseen the possibility of such an actual velocity--or had he?


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