Question: Who coined the term scientist?
Answer: William Whewell in 1833.
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2 comments:
But did William ever use the term properly, as in "Back off, man, I'm a scientist!"?
Probably. The philospher Simon Blackburn described him recently as "a rather patchy philosopher."
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