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/ˈsaɪəntɪst/
A person who studies science, or whose job is to learn how the world works by testing ideas carefully.
科學家
複數 scientists
核心畫面
Picture someone who really wants to know how the world works, so they don't just guess — they take one idea at a time, test it carefully, and watch what actually happens.
From the word’s history
science comes from Latin scientia 'knowledge', from scire 'to know'; add -ist ('a person who does X') and a scientist is literally 'one whose work is knowing / finding out'.
science 來自拉丁文 scientia（知識），再往前是 scire「知道、弄懂」；加上字尾 -ist（做某件事的人），scientist 字面就是「以『搞懂事情』為業的人」。
Latin scientia < scire 'to know' (etymonline; confirmed via web search)
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
scientistnoun/ˈsaɪəntɪst/
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One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.
- 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.
- Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。