As we cannot use physician for a cultivator of physics, I have called him a physicist. We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a Scientist. Thus we might say, that as an Artist is a Musician, Painter or Poet, a Scientist is a Mathematician, Physicist, or Naturalist.


The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840), Vol. 1 cxiii

William Whewell Quotes

As we cannot use physician for a cultivator of physics, I have called him a physicist. We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science...

As we cannot use physician for a cultivator of physics, I have called him a physicist. We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science...

As we cannot use physician for a cultivator of physics, I have called him a physicist. We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science...

As we cannot use physician for a cultivator of physics, I have called him a physicist. We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science...