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Example sentences for "scientific discovery"

  • Since Mr. Mill assents to so much of what has been said in the Philosophy, with regard to the process of scientific discovery, how, it may be asked, would he express these doctrines so as to exclude that which he thinks erroneous?

  • Mr. Mill has not only thus described the business of scientific discovery; he has also given rules for it, founded on this description.

  • Le Verrier; from The Annual of Scientific Discovery, for 1855, p.

  • The water-telescope is thus noticed in a very promising periodical, the American Annual of Scientific Discovery, just published, of which a copy reached us a few days ago.

  • Discoveries differ also from inventions: a scientific discovery is a newly found truth in science, which in the great majority of cases is not in the form of {8} applied knowledge.

  • The progress of scientific discovery, so far from tending to verify, has served rather to invalidate the fundamental assumption on which the whole theory depends.

  • That the progress of scientific discovery, so far from tending to verify and confirm, has served rather to disprove and invalidate the fundamental assumption on which it rests.

  • Or is it true that it has lost instead of gaining ground by the progress of scientific discovery, so as to occupy a narrower space and to hold a more precarious footing, now, than it did in the earlier ages of ignorance and superstition?

  • Long may you live to use it--long may you live to pursue your splendid career of scientific discovery, and to give new claims to the gratitude and praise of the world!

  • Happily he lived to see and to appreciate to its full value this latest miracle of scientific discovery, applied by human genius and skill.

  • He was one of the men of the new era--of the school of Stephenson and Brunel--who believed in the marvellous achievements yet to be wrought by human invention, turning to the service of man the wonders of scientific discovery.

  • This is another double yellow form of the Buttercup.

  • This exactly answers to the colour of the pretty Saxifrage under notice, and it is far from a common one in foliage.

  • The clergy did not feel authorized to countenance a scientific discovery which, in a former age, had been condemned by the authority of the Church.

  • And in these days the critical tendency has received a novel stimulus from the successive suggestions of scientific discovery.

  • When one makes a scientific discovery, one endows one's country with it, and the country rewards one.

  • He was not a gold-digger nor a silver-miner: he was sent out for the purpose of scientific discovery; not to load the Icebear with the spoils of this frozen wilderness, but to spy out the richness of the land.

  • The conversation was all about previous voyages of scientific discovery.

  • Not altogether for the sake of pleasure were these excursions made, but for the purpose of scientific discovery.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been called; face with; five were; her knee; highly polished; modern agriculture; overtake them; past times; scientific basis; scientific discovery; scientific education; scientific frontier; scientific inquiry; scientific instruments; scientific investigation; scientific logic; scientific medicine; scientific principles; scientific study; scientific theory; scientific thought; scientific truth; small value; till very; too late; twas only