Scientific

Examples

• It is only by the use of words as symbols that scientific thought is possible. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It is a scientific labor. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I little expected in this enlightened and scientific age to find a disciple of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He was already the scientific lion of England, but withal a very modest and unassuming lion. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We have elaborate governmental mechanisms--like the tariff, for example, which we go on making more scientific year in, year out--having long since lost sight of their human purpose. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• However, from the many examples of his scientific acumen I select one more.) Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But the thinker, the man who devotes himself to scientific inquiry and philosophic speculation, works, so to speak, in reason, not simply by *. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Gregory, not the founder but the apostle of the scientific method. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• While they are an indispensable portion of scientific method, they do not as a matter of course constitute scientific method. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• His goods, said Mr. Cruncher, after turning it over in his mind, is a branch of Scientific goods. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It was the orthodox theology that the new scientific advances had compromised, but the angry theologians declared that it was religion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Thompson_ DEEP SEA MONSTER CAPTURED OFF FLORIDA So far as the scientific world is concerned, this is the only fish of its kind ever captured. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Too often the pupil comes out with a smattering which is too superficial to be scientific and too technical to be applicable to ordinary affairs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This alone involved an incalculable setback to the march of scientific thought. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• On the other hand, Galton, after his classical study of mental imagery (1883), stated that scientific men, as a class, have feeble powers of visual representat ion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• With the judges, a group of famous scientific men, and the Emperor’s suite for audience, Bell went to the transmitter at the other end of the wire, while Dom Pedro put the receiver to his ear. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Scientific law appeared not merely as a formulation and explanation of observed phenomena but as a means for the discovery of new truths. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Two great English noblemen became his allies in scientific studies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But if he makes a scientific investigation of the act, such a discrimination is the first thing he would effect. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Edison's assertions were treated with scepticism by the scientific world, which was not then ready for the discovery and not sufficiently furnished with corroborative data. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is not without significance that both Gilbert and Harvey had spent years in Italy, where, as we have implied, the experimental method of scientific research was early developed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Have you seen much of your scientific phoenix, Lydgate, lately? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The production of engravings is just as highly technical and scientific and involves as much experience and judgment in their application as any of the learned professions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mr. Jennings is about to try a scientific experiment to-night. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The scientific world had been working hard on subdivision for years, using what appeared to be common sense. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In fact, it has become the familiar scientific toy of man, woman, and child, interesting, instructive, and useful to all. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A more scientific statement, however, is that the cold vapor absorbs the heat units of the water, and taking them away with it, lowers the temperature of the water to the freezing point. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• There was no buying of foundry iron by analysis, no high carbon steels, no fancy tool steels--nor any efficiency experts with their stop watches and scientific speed-and-feed tables. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The inventions and improvements in optical instruments gave rise to great advances in the making of lenses, based on scientific principles, and not resting alone on hard work and experience. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He went to London in 1801, and there he had the great satisfaction of meeting many scientific men whose names and work were well known to him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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