Sciences
['saɪəns]
Examples
- Since the supply is small, induce to begin this study youths of about eig hteen years of age who are already acquainted with the sciences required in a general education. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In the mechanical arts, the sciences become methods of managing things so as to utilize their energies for recognized aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- No one expects the young to make original discoveries of just the same facts and principles as are embodied in the sciences of nature and man. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Philosophy, he says, is surely the ultimate end of human knowledge, or the object at which all sciences properly must aim. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Waldman inflicted torture when he praised, with kindness and warmth, the astonishing progress I had made in the sciences. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Louis XIV set up an academy of sciences in rivalry with the English Royal Society of Charles II and the similar association at Florence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Our modern numerals are Arabic; our arithmetic and algebra are essentially Semitic sciences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All these, and many more useful arts, too many to be enumerated here, wholly depend upon the aforesaid sciences, namely, arithmetic and geometry. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Nothing remains to us but that universal or primary science of which all the arts and sciences are partakers, I mean number or calculation. Plato. The Republic.
- He valued the sciences, not on their own account, but as they might subserve the purposes of the orator. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Both these great nations of antiquity, ho wever, failed to carry the sciences that arose in connection with their arts to a high degree of generalization. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Monsieur Amontons, in his _Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, An. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Now a vital relationship can be observed not only among different stages of the same science, but als o among the different sciences. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In fact, this form of utilization has been carried further in Europe than in this country as a means of demonstration in the arts and sciences. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And does not the same principle hold in the sciences? Plato. The Republic.
- Architecture for Vitruvius is a science arising out of many oth er sciences. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- My dear boy, he exclaimed, I have loved the sciences so much my life through tha t that makes my heart jump. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Ne vertheless, if you seek the very origins of the sciences, you will inevitably be drawn to the banks of the Nile, and to the valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- President Wilson (born 1856) had previously been a prominent student and teacher of history, constitutional law, and the political sciences generally. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In his work on architecture, Vitruvius shows himself a diligent a nd devoted student of the sciences in order that he may turn them to account in his own department of technology. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It shows the sciences in their interrelations, and saves the student from narrowness and premature specialization. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Another in fluence tending to check the advance of the sciences was the clash between Christ ian and Pagan ideals. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It was part--and an excellent part--of the pose of Grand Monarchy to patronize literature and the sciences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The way to it was through the mathematical sciences, and these too were dependent on it. Plato. The Republic.
- A something which all arts and sciences and intelligences use in common, and which every one first has to learn among the elements of education. Plato. The Republic.
- He was a fertile and stimulating thinker, and much of his great influence arose from the comprehensiven ess that led to his celebrated classification of the sciences. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In 1854 he was appointed Dean of the F aculty of Sciences at Lille, a town then officially described as the richest center of industrial activity in the n orth of France. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- EGYPT, 25 00 B.C. Medicine, which is almost certain to develop in the early history of a people in response to their urgent needs, has been justly called the foster-mother of many sciences. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It is pertinent to note that in the history of the race the sciences grew gradually out from useful social occupations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In a way this is curiously suggestive of the earnest, energetic method of frontal attack with which the inventor has since addressed himself to so many problems in the arts and sciences. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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