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nonscientist

n. A person who is not a scientist.

Usage examples of "nonscientist".

He was Director of Populations, which meant the nonscientist colonists, and those were exactly what he meant by the second wave.

They have also interviewed nonscientist informants and investigated the vast amount of wildman lore contained in ancient literatures and traditions.

Peter was actually teaching her, what he was revealing, and it was no more than he would have done with a visiting nonscientist, she realized angrily.

Still, he was loath to agree with this nonscientist public-relations simpleton.

She smiled, then turned her back to him, and along with a crew of heavily armed and armored nonscientists, apparently sec men, began to push the crowd of whitecoats out of the way.

Even nonscientists were familiar with the ill-fated astronomer who had been arrested and almost executed by the church for proclaiming that the sun, and not the earth, was the center of the solar system.

Cybernetics, its sister sciences of information theory and system theory, and their descendants in the new sciences of complexity and human communica-tion offer scientists and nonscientists alike new ways to think systematically and strategically, to solve problems, paint scenarios, and identify potential tumble spots before disaster strikes.

Science - pure science, science not for any practical application but for its own sake - is a deeply emotional matter for those who practise it, as well as for those nonscientists who every now and then dip in to see what's been discovered lately.