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Example sentences for "science"

Lexicographically close words:
schyre; scias; sciat; sciatic; sciatica; sciences; sciendum; scientia; scientiae; scientiam
  1. These considerations, suggested by the history of the Conquest, and by the science of mining, may throw some light on the problem of the metallic wealth of Hayti.

  2. Have we a right to believe that all the progress that has thus far been made in science is but an augury of progress far greater, reaching into the illimitable?

  3. The man of practical science laughs at the notion that we can reach up our hands into the clouds and draw down the lightning.

  4. The man of practical science laughs at the notion of an iron railway on which steam cars shall travel faster than English coaches.

  5. Be true Baconians, at once, as all the true men of science will tell you to be.

  6. He knew little or nothing about the science of music, and with characteristic candor he at once said so.

  7. He continued his studies and experiments in developing the science of electricity through his whole life, but he died, an old man, before a single electric arc was seen in the streets of London.

  8. Both in Bavaria and in England, Count Rumford devoted himself to science and the improvement of the conditions of his fellow men.

  9. Among the great American inventors in electrical science is Thomas Alva Edison.

  10. To-day we have a great variety of printing presses which embody both science and art in skillful fashion.

  11. I am not a natural science man, and it is not my business to settle such questions; I only mean to say that people like Mavra are not uncommon.

  12. I, too, used to say that science was light, that culture was essential, but for the simple people reading and writing was enough for the time.

  13. I believe there is not an art nor a science in the world free from "foreign bodies" after the style of this Mr. Gnekker.

  14. Your friends don't know anything of science or medicine, but you don't reproach them with it.

  15. Not without emotion, the young devotee of science begins telling me that he has passed his examination as a doctor of medicine, and that he has now only to write his dissertation.

  16. On a boy coming fresh from the provinces and imagining that the temple of science must really be a temple, such gates cannot make a healthy impression.

  17. I have spent all my life in working at natural science and medicine, and I have never had time to take an interest in the arts.

  18. No art nor science was capable of producing so strong and so certain an effect on the soul of man as the stage, and it was with good reason that an actor of medium quality enjoys greater popularity than the greatest savant or artist.

  19. Why, the difference between the learned Europeans and the Chinese who have no science is trifling, purely external.

  20. Where are the men who have made politics the study of their lives, who have mastered the theories of government and the science of economics, and who have all the different treaties of Europe at the ends of their fingers?

  21. The volubility with which these fair creatures discuss the affairs of state, and questions of political economy which the science of Miss Martineau could not unravel, is really quite astounding.

  22. Altogether the picture was a familiar one, such as might have been seen in any abode of those jugglers and quacks of the age who practised the occult science and grew rich on the superstitions of the ignorant.

  23. It is evident that certain definite purposes are being wrought out through physical forms, processes, and forces; science reveals clearly enough certain great lines of development.

  24. On the other hand, tactics is the science of disposing military and naval forces in order of battle and performing military and naval evolutions.

  25. It is the science of military command, or the science of directing great movements.

  26. So science has served the highest interest of humanity in doing all it can to drive out this sort of a God, with his hell and eternal punishment, from the world.

  27. The greatest discovery of the past century, far greater than any revelation of science or knowledge of past ages, revealed by modern research is the discovery of a God of Love.

  28. It has been popularly reported that science has driven God out of the world.

  29. Science has refuted ignorant beliefs, driven superstition out of the minds of people, and opened many minds to the great facts of life as against the silly beliefs of primitive peoples.

  30. Science has never yet been able to discover the probable length of time it required for this crude age to endure in order to lay the foundation of the world; for time was not, and existence was recorded only by ages and aeons.

  31. I believe the character of Hamlet may be traced to Shakespeare’s deep and accurate science in mental philosophy.

  32. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication, of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.

  33. I knew you would say so, but the Colonel cannot enter into his wish to have more physical science and less classics, and will not hear of his going to Germany, which is what he wishes, though I am sure he is too young.

  34. Moreover, Mr. Ogilvie had a lecturer from London to give weekly lectures on physical science to his boys, and opened the doors to ladies.

  35. You would have many more opportunities, and much better ones, of studying physical science than I can provide for you here.

  36. You must have expected it of him, at the time when he and I used to laugh at what we thought was a monomania on your part for our taking up medical science as a tribute to our father, when we did not need it as a provision.

  37. The science of cookery was by no means a needless task, for the cook was very plain, and Allen's appetite was dainty, and comfort at dinner could only be hoped for by much thought and contrivance.

  38. His lectures brought men of science about him, and his practice had made him acquainted with us poor Bohemians, as you seem to think us.

  39. Now, have the two, science and religion, never clashed, or have you kept them apart?

  40. I want them to be where physical science is an object.

  41. If my uncle won't let me study physical science in Germany, I had rather go on here, where I can be let alone to study it for myself.

  42. We find the first worked out economic theory for the whole Catholic world in the Corpus Juris Canonici, that product of mediæval science in which for so many centuries theology, jurisprudence, philosophy, and politics were treated.

  43. Not alone in the sphere of price, but in that of every other department of economics, the impossibility of treating the subject as an abstract science without regard to ethics is being rapidly abandoned.

  44. Economics, far from being a science whose highest aim was to evolve a series of abstractions, was a practical guide to the conduct of everyday affairs.

  45. All art indeed in this sense rests on science; but the science on which the canonist doctrine rested was theology.

  46. The last fifty years have witnessed a reaction against the scientific abstractions of the classical economists, and modern thinkers are growing more and more dissatisfied with an economic science which leaves ethics out of account.

  47. Your science cannot change the heavens or make the sun to shine, messieurs," he said at last, pointing to the curtains which the gray atmosphere of Paris darkened.

  48. Science sprang, sparkling with her specious lights, from the bosom of heresy.

  49. If you do not know the ground on which our edifice is built, you may well think it doomed to crumble with our lives, and so judge the Science cultivated from century to century by the greatest among men, as the common herd judge of it.

  50. Why cannot science seize the secret of that motion?

  51. Science is the essence of humanity, and we are its pontiffs; whoso concerns himself about the essence cares little about the individual life.

  52. The science of my fathers in that direction gave them thrones; whereas if you continue to trifle in the midst of danger you are liable to lose yours.

  53. The words uttered by the little provincial were said in a voice of strange sonorousness, if I may be permitted to borrow that expression from the science of physics.

  54. A few courtiers spoke to them in a low voice; but the men of science made guarded answers, carefully concealing the fatal verdict which was in their minds.

  55. Our science can make the skies what we like, sire," replied Lorenzo Ruggiero.

  56. Besides, in our science results are perceivable; we can measure effects and predict them; whereas all things are uncertain and vacillating in the struggles of men and their selfish interests.

  57. Science now continued, in a serious manner, the truculent examination of the executioner's eye.

  58. In current Earth science tin and mercury and a few alloys could be made into superconductors by being cooled below 18° Kelvin, or four hundred odd degrees Fahrenheit below zero.

  59. They are children," said the thin man in a very thin voice, "and they are human children, and their science makes us ridiculous.

  60. I knew that in putting the science of war into practice, it was necessary that its main tenets should form, so to speak, part of one's flesh and blood.

  61. Jack Jaikes did the job with grumbling thoroughness and the man of drugs was brought to with a science and celerity unknown in his own pharmacy.

  62. Keller Bey was a leader of men, but I could not help seeing, apart from his indubitable personal magnetism, how things were bungled for lack of those very qualities of science and method.

  63. Science may walk in an apparently unnecessary labyrinth, and awhile be lost in the wildest mazes, and yet come out into day at last, and have picked up more than it sought by the way.

  64. The nature and object of the Peace Union is, that science or knowledge in every department and every branch of enterprise directs and governs the work.

  65. We science grubbers on the outposts enlist for the term of the war," he said, smiling wanly.

  66. By the way, is it a local custom for hermits of science to climb breakneck precipices for golden- hearted orchids to send to casual acquaintances?

  67. His theory is not science still in the vague, but something which stops the way to science.

  68. The obvious general reply would be, that Political Economy cannot be an exact science because it also deals throughout with human desires.

  69. The man of science says, with perfect truth, that so far from men being born equal, some are born with the capacity of becoming Shakespeares and Newtons, and others with scarcely the power of rising above Sally the chimpanzee.

  70. To speak of science and politics together is almost to suggest irony.

  71. The very conception of economic science supposes all that is supposed, in the growth of a settled order of society.

  72. A complete science would clear up fully a problem which must occur often to all of us: How do you account for London?

  73. But I cannot help thinking that it is an illusion to suppose that such methods can justify the assertion that the science as a whole is "mathematical".

  74. The progress of social science implies, in the first place, the abandonment of the weary system of hunting for fruitful truths in the region of chimeras, and trying to make empty logical concepts do the work of observation of facts.

  75. One man on the planet with power to destroy nations seemed quite a fantastic idea--yet science made it actually possible!

  76. Science can do nothing to bring them back, but I will not deny the possibility of other forces which might work a remedy on this ruin of a 'master of the world' as he calls himself!

  77. This fact was the one point that chiefly dwelt in her mind--a secret of science which she puzzled her brain to fathom.

  78. Capital and Labour, the two forces which are much more prone to rend each other than to co-operate--these would both possibly be non-existent if Science had its full way.

  79. My child, there is no science that can upset the Source of all science!

  80. Gossip ran amok concerning the two, and it was generally agreed that if the "madman" of science were to become the husband of a woman multi-millionaire, he would not have to be considered so mad after all!

  81. However this may be, let us not imagine that in the rush of commerce and the marvels of science the world is left empty of love!

  82. Suppose you could command the elements--suppose every force that science could bestow were yours, and yet!

  83. And we use the discoveries of science recklessly and selfishly--without gratitude, humbleness or reverence.

  84. I can do all that science allows--" "And you will do it!

  85. But a man who has set his soul on science doesn't want a wife.

  86. Like a blind child stumbling towards the light it has FELT the discoveries of science long before discovery.

  87. Boyle made the air-pump a means of advancing the science of pneumatics, and became the founder of experimental chymistry.

  88. Science suddenly became the fashion of the day.

  89. The beginnings of physical science were more slow and timid there than in any country of Europe.

  90. Wilkins pointed forward to the science of philology in his scheme of a universal language.

  91. Hobbes was the first great English writer who dealt with the science of government from the ground, not of tradition, but of reason.

  92. The researches of Sir Josiah Child, and still more of Sir William Petty, not only threw light on the actual state of English trade but pointed forward to the future science of Political Economy.

  93. Take one of the class at a lecture on the higher branches of a science of which he has not so much as thoroughly mastered the roots, and wherein this higher analysis offers certain new and perhaps startling results.

  94. Then they begin to think the knowledge of the world, as got from books, so wonderful, so profound; and they look on it as a science to be learned by much studying of aphorisms.


  95. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "science" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    area; arena; art; concern; craft; discipline; domain; erudition; field; information; knowledge; lore; mechanics; mechanism; method; ology; province; scholarship; science; skill; specialty; sphere; study; technics; technique; technology; wisdom


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    science and; science and useful arts