6 sentences with 'scholar'
Example sentences and phrases with the word scholar and other words derived from it.
• « The English scholar based his theory on the appearance of living beings, that is, on morphology. »
• « Claudius was also a scholar, mastering the Etruscan and Punic languages and writing histories of those two civilisations (the histories are now lost, unfortunately). »
• « The French scholar François Poulain de la Barre (1647-1725) concluded that empirical observation showed that the custom of male domination in European society was just that: a custom. »
• « Many of Freud's theories were influenced by his own experience as a brilliant scholar who happened to be Jewish, living in a society plagued by anti-Semitism - he sought to understand the inner psychological drives that led people to engage in irrational behaviour. »
• « The complexity of the brain organ has caused more than one scholar to lose sleep, and ideas that emerged in the late 1980s contributed to such concerns. Scientists concluded that the brain uses only a small part of it for all our actions, leaving a huge potential that can be exploited. »
• « "Creationism is just low politics, you can't deprive people of the right to think," he said. Sharp comments like this characterise Gould, a scholar of the evolution of science and ideas. »