Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Trivia of the day

Question: Who coined the term scientist?

Answer: William Whewell in 1833.

2 comments:

  1. But did William ever use the term properly, as in "Back off, man, I'm a scientist!"?

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  2. Probably. The philospher Simon Blackburn described him recently as "a rather patchy philosopher."

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