Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of “i” in one word is too much. —

Michael Faraday (1791-1867) was not fond of that new-fangled word “physicist”.

Instead, he was an “experimentalist”, a “natural philosopher”, or simply a “scientist”. It seems a modern trend, this need to hyper-specialize both our questions and our means of answering them . Fight it.

(via jtotheizzoe)