You always knew your friendship
with an eccentric scientist was interesting but you never thought it would lead to this!
The one balm in Marty's life is his friendship
with eccentric scientist Doc (Christopher Lloyd), who at present is working on a time machine.
Not exact matches
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....
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.
Finalists: Lesley Manville (Mr Turner) is typically enchanting as an
eccentric lady
scientist instructing Mr Turner on prisms; and Jena Malone (Inherent Vice) continues to seize her roles
with gusto, quite memorable as an abandoned wife / former druggie - love that tapping on her fake choppers.
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.