A child who carries even an eighth part of human genetics is more likely to become a stronger worker, a more talented singer, a more visionary scientist.

But our more visionary scientists believe they are well on the way to developing something even better: the technique of cloning.

Mr. Olsen, a 66-year-old former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is comfortable that he can leave the company in the hands of a visionary scientist rather than a salesman.

None of this has gone unnoticed by canny entrepreneurs and visionary scientists.

Or perhaps he'd never had that kind of courage that intestinal fortitude a truly visionary scientist needs to see things through to their conclusion: So I finished what he" started.

Dr. Wigner was part of a circle of remarkably visionary scientists born and educated in Budapest who eventually came to the West and transformed the modern world.

Some visionary scientists even dream of making computers out of proteins that could be manufactured by living cells.

So do many environmentalists, who praise him as a visionary, and many scientists, who laud him for raising public awareness of climate change.

A visionary scientist who has become a sort of Buckminster Fuller of personal computing, Kay was outlining his latest and most ambitious project.

The Creator takes the viewer into the surreal dream world of the visionary scientist and seed of Thinking Machines.