Nice elucidation, Peter. And I fully concur with the distinction as it is made 
in English. My point was, though, that not all cultures make the distinction. I 
am running into a similar problem as I work with Russian colleagues on 
translating some of their very fine work into English. Endeavors that they wish 
to call "experimental" are by no means experimental, as we use the word in our 
field's subculture. It presents some interesting dilemmas in cross-cultural 
collaboration!

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On Mar 8, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Elizabeth Gassin wrote:

> Someone may have already answered this (we're on break, so I am  
> going through days of posts right now), but in other languages, the  
> word for "scholar" and "scientist" are the same (i.e., Russian...  
> and German, too, if I am not mistaken).
A scholar is a broadly well-informed person.   A scientist is one  
who, one expects, is well-informed in one or perhaps two related  
sciences.   When a scientist is well and broadly informed (not  
necessarily expert) in-- literature, history, music, etc., etc. then  
he/she is a scholar.   Einstein was a scholar as is, for example,  
Dawkins although he is not of the same stature.  Sadly, nowadays we  
live in the age of specializations (both in the arts and the  
sciences) where most specialists do not see the wood from the  
trees.   This state of affairs is doing untold damage to our  
civilizations.
Once I complimented a well-known psychologist colleague by calling  
him a scholar.   He bristled and said 'I am not a scholar, I am a  
scientist!)   Therein lies many of our social problems.  (Just a few  
days after we went to war in Afghanistan a class of graduate students  
were fully aware of the news, but could not say where is Afghanistan.)
Peter

Peter Harzem, B.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D.(Wales)
Hudson Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849-5214
USA
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