Yeah, he does great work as a physicist, and he’s tremendously well-known as a popularizer, but I’ve never thought he did the best job of it. From Wordnik.com. [Objections to Kaku and Liu’s “How to Time Travel?”] Reference
I don't mind being called a popularizer, "he said. From Wordnik.com. [Reuters: Top News] Reference
Simon as far as I can tell was a popularizer and advertiser. From Wordnik.com. [The Gist of Julian Simon, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Buckley was also a tireless popularizer and political combatant. From Wordnik.com. [Up From Liberalism] Reference
Kaku as a physics popularizer seems to be a charlatan, plain and simple. From Wordnik.com. [Objections to Kaku and Liu’s “How to Time Travel?”] Reference
He has the potential to be ufology's great popularizer in the 21st century. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
There is nothing wrong with being a popularizer of science, nothing at all. From Wordnik.com. [An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris] Reference
He may or may not be the popularizer of the phrase "heads I win, tails you lose". From Wordnik.com. [The Sitcom Wisdom of Afanti] Reference
TYRELL: Russell Kirk was a popularizer of conservative ideas in the '50s and' 60s. From Wordnik.com. [The Conservative Crack-Up] Reference
Simon Singh, a British journalist and a popularizer of science, is fighting a lawsuit. From Wordnik.com. [Beware the libel : Law is Cool] Reference
He was afraid that if he became a mere popularizer he'd blow his shot at a Nobel Prize. From Wordnik.com. [Obama’s Nobel Headache] Reference
He was a great popularizer of wine and a champion for California and the United States. From Wordnik.com. [LENNDEVOURS:] Reference
As a major popularizer of social Darwinist thought, Liang applied it to various subjects. From Wordnik.com. [Liang Qichao: "The Strife of Human Races"] Reference
But the theremin's greatest popularizer - hands down - was Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
Eights was an intelligent naturalist who later became a perceptive popularizer of science. From Wordnik.com. [James Eights] Reference
Personally, I think Tyson is a great popularizer of science view of the vacuousness of ID. From Wordnik.com. [Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Perimeter of Ignorance - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Stossel certainly isn't one to take part in that--he's more a propagandist and popularizer. From Wordnik.com. [John Stossel Tonight, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
If Kaku hasn't been compared to a modern day Carl Sagan as a popularizer of science, he should be. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku] Reference
I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science popularizer. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur C. Clarke Links and Video] Reference
I'm not sure when being a popularizer of scientific ideas became such a bad thing to your crowd. From Wordnik.com. [An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris] Reference
Wolff was a very successful popularizer of the thought of Leibniz, but fuller in his ethical system. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Morality] Reference
The greatest popularizer of evolutionary theory in the nineteenth century was of course Ernst Haeckel. From Wordnik.com. [Ernst Mach] Reference
Baez is a deep thinker and a gifted popularizer, adept at imparting the true strangeness of this world. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Niall Ferguson is one of those rare characters: a respected scholar who's also a successful popularizer. From Wordnik.com. [Economists Out to Lunch] Reference
You have never heard true condescension until you have heard academics pronounce the word "popularizer.". From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
President Roosevelt was its most active agent, to be sure, -- its "gigantic advertiser" and popularizer. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
Not only is Marcus a well-known mathematician, but he is a good popularizer of math and an engaging speaker. From Wordnik.com. [math] Reference
While Borges was certainly the great popularizer of the review of an imaginary work, it was not his own invention. From Wordnik.com. [jorge luis borges | the destiny of borges « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
I'm also quite fond of Spence's Mysteries of Britain and kindred works; he was a tireless folklorist and popularizer. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
Not a great scholar, he was a great popularizer, and he spread the doctrines of Augustine of Hippo throughout the West. From Wordnik.com. [f. The Lombards and the Popes] Reference
Even at Princeton her colleagues hold her in scorn as a silly popularizer who entirely distorts the history she discusses. From Wordnik.com. [The Pagels story: getting worse and worse] Reference
But much of the publicity has overlooked Cousteau's greatest achievement, which was not as a popularizer but as an inventor. From Wordnik.com. [Jacques Cousteau: Tech Pioneer] Reference
"Feiler is a popularizer, and readers interested in a light and cursory treatment of a theme in U.S. history will enjoy it.". From Wordnik.com. [America's Prophet by Bruce Feiler: Book summary] Reference
I feel a bit like the British astronomy popularizer, Patrick Moore, who prefers to not use computers and uses an antique typewriter. From Wordnik.com. [Amateur astronomer Gus Johnson talks about his black hole discovery 31 years ago] Reference
Fish and Wildlife Service, kept up with the latest developments in a wide variety of fields, and made her name as a scientific popularizer. From Wordnik.com. [Rachel Carson's environmental ethics] Reference
An early popularizer of the expression was Jeane Kirkpatrick, who was United States ambassador to the United Nations in the Reagan administration. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Lacking in Prosal Clarity] Reference
In 1933, he and his father, song collector John Lomax, discovered Leadbelly, who was to become the great popularizer of black folk music, in a Louisiana prison. From Wordnik.com. [The Voices Of America] Reference
The job of the popularizer of science, trying to get across some idea of quantum mechanics to a general audience that has not gone through these initiation rites, is daunting. From Wordnik.com. [On Quantum Theory And Parapsychology] Reference
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