Sentences with phrase «of eccentric scientists»

No one knows where the stereotype of the eccentric scientist first arose, but it was certainly nursed along by Walter Rothschild, a famed adventurer and collector of birds and butterflies who also ended up selling part of his collection to the American Museum of Natural History because of a cash - flow problem.

Geoffrey Pyke was the very model of the eccentric scientist.

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After all, there's a reason why a movie about an eccentric scientist who transforms a beat - up DeLorean into a make - shift time machine has become one of the most iconic films of all time.

Peter Leithart describes Rupert Sheldrake's eccentric ideas: Scientists and non-scientists frequently equate the materialist worldview with science itself, but Sheldrake argues that much of our everyday experience, not to mention recent scientific research, points in the opposite direction....

In their determination and dogmatism these eccentric «scientists» are not always simply caricatures; their hearts and minds are sometimes harnessed to a genuine, valid vision, kept from realisation only by a lack of formalism.

The Royal Society proves a fruitful jumping - off point, too: Margaret Atwood says its eccentric members were inspiration for literature's mad scientist; Paul Davies ponders whether 350 years of astronomy have led us to expect a life - filled or a lifeless universe.

According to Bedford, back in 1899, eccentric scientist Joseph Cavor (Lionel Jeffries) and his prim and proper fiancee Kate Callender (Martha Hyer) took an impromptu trip to the moon after a botched attempt at making a pesky batch of «cavorite» (a Wells created anti-gravity «substance.»)

Deadline reports that X-Men: Days of Future Past star James McAvoy is in negotiations with Fox to play the the eccentric scientist in a reinterpretation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

SYNOPSIS: An eccentric pair of scientists create a human monster in modern - day Los Angeles.

Ably assisted by screenwriter Mike Carey, adapting his own bestseller from 2014, their film takes the elaborately overdone zombie genre and resuscitates it, while also taking and revamping a handful of well - established genre tropes ---- apocalypse premise, creepy kids, mad scientists ---- and tweaks them in eccentric and imaginative new ways.

Some familiar faces return, including those of Charlie Day and Burn Gorman as eccentric scientists — one of whose eccentricities have grown pronouncedly more extreme.

O'Brien also brings us inside the prestigious research community, a kind of scientific Hogwarts where resident owls sometimes flew freely from office to office and eccentric, brilliant scientists were extraordinarily committed to studying and helping animals; all of them were changed by the animal they loved.

As the assistant of an eccentric (and slightly evil) scientist, Professor Splatunfuder, it's your job to help him in restoring a damaged Recipe book.

Auriti's plan was never carried out, of course, but the dream of universal, all - embracing knowledge crops up throughout history, as one that eccentrics like Auriti share with many other artists, writers, scientists, and prophets who have tried — often in vain — to fashion an image of the world that will capture its infinite variety and richness.»

It is headed by Arthur B. Robinson, an eccentric scientist who has a long history of controversial entanglements with figures on the fringe of accepted research.

The list of prominent bicyclists in film history includes misfit teens (Napoleon Dynamite), eccentric Einstein - like scientists (the license-less Jeff Goldblum character in Independence Day, in which the bike is, admittedly, shown as a pretty decent way to escape Manhattan), vaguely countercultural types (Mark Wahlberg's character in I Heart Huckabees, or Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men) perpetual man - children (Pee - Wee's Big Adventure), and people who otherwise refuse to grow up or are out of touch with real life and the working world.