natural scientists

Researchers studying nature

Natural scientists are researchers who study the physical world through observation and experiment—biologists, chemists, physicists, geologists, and their kin.

The term distinguishes them from social scientists, who study human behavior and society.

Natural scientists have documented accelerating species loss over the past century.

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biology · physics · botanist · Charles Darwin · ecology · specimen · specimen jar · data collection · notebook · meteorology · insect · rock · sample · ethology · oceanography · zoology · Marie Curie · Royal Society

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disciplinary domain

natural scientiststheologians

Scholars of religious belief

humanists · philosophers · art historians · literary critics · religious scholars

empirical vs. speculative inquiry

natural scientistsmetaphysicians

Philosophers studying fundamental reality

theologians · philosophers · mystics · scholastics

knowledge vs. belief/practice

natural scientistsfaith healers

Those claiming supernatural cures

creationists · flat-earthers · astrologers · supernaturalists · pseudoscientists

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