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Experimentalist   Listen
noun
Experimentalist  n.  
1.
One who makes experiments, especially one who likes to experiment; an experimenter.
2.
One who relies primarily on experimentation and the evidence of one's own senses; an empiricist; contrasted with theoretician or dogmatist.






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"Experimentalist" Quotes from Famous Books



... structure in the pulmonary apparatus, which a late ingenious experimentalist has discovered to be the principal regulator of animal heat, may have disabled them from extricating, in the act of inspiration, so much of that fluid from the outer air, or obliged them in expiration to part with more of it. They seem to require less sleep. A black, after ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I • Various

... paper; test tube; analytical instruments &c 633. empiricism, rule of thumb. feeler; trial balloon, pilot balloon, messenger balloon; pilot engine; scout; straw to show the wind. speculation, random shot, leap in the dark. analyzer, analyst, assayist^; adventurer; experimenter, experimentist^, experimentalist; scientist, engineer, technician. subject, experimentee^, guinea pig, experimental animal. [experimental method] protocol, experimental method, blind experiment, double-blind experiment, controlled experiment. poll, survey, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... perhaps the experimentalist will say, admitting all this to be true, yet we no otherwise obtain a perception of these universals than by an induction of particulars, and abstraction from sensibles. To this, I answer that the universal which is the ...
— Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato • Thomas Taylor

... fluid, or in the wooden frame on which the experiments took place. On these objections the following remarks may be made. The supposition of impiety arises from an entire misconception of what is implied by an aboriginal creation of insects. The experimentalist could never be considered as the author of the existence of these creatures, except by the most unreasoning ignorance. The utmost that can be claimed for, or imputed to him is that he arranged the natural conditions under which the true creative energy—that of the Divine Author of all things—was ...
— Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation • Robert Chambers



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