Biological science, which a generation ago was supposed to be at the antipodes of exact science, is becoming more and more exact, and is cultivated by methods which are developed and taught by mathematicians.
The fact is that there is very little to excite popular interest in the advance of exact science.
This new branch of science from which so much may be expected is the offshoot of another, the rapid growth of which illustrates the rapid invasion of the most important fields of thought by the methods of exact science.
I must begin the answer to this question by explaining a nice point in exact science.
But as soon as any given fact excites the {293} interest of religion as well as that of exact science, collisions are possible from both sides.
Tidology, therefore, is not yet an exact science; not from any inherent incapacity of being so, but from the difficulty of ascertaining with complete precision the real derivative uniformities.
This is the legitimate sphere of all that science which can lay any claim to be regarded as "exact science.
Tyndall against the attempt of any man to set limits to human thought, but we would equally protest against the attempt to pass off the results of speculative thinking in any direction as "exact science.
This is all that science can do, all that men of exact science claim to be able to do.
This extension, worked out independently by Newton and Leibnitz, may be classed as the most fruitful of conceptions in exact science.
In the first place, as just pointed out, we learn how few and simple are the conceptions and postulates upon which the actual edifice of exact science rests.
So far as these prevail, this department of investigation is entitled to the Mathematical character accorded to it by Professor Silliman, and ranks as an Exact Science.
It is the office of Exact Science to furnish us with a knowledge of the inherent Laws which everywhere pervade the Universe and govern continuously and unalterably its activities.
It has consequently exhibited an ambiguous or problematical aspect, incompatible with the rigorous requirements of Exact Science.
This latter conception, we know, is the theory of exact science, but not of Alchemy, not of the science of Occultism.
Alchemy and astrology--twin sisters--were the parents of the modern offspring, known in chemistry and astronomy as exact science.
And so the world rolls along its bright pathway in the heavens, little heeding the logical conclusions of an exact science.
It will transform the medical empiricism and confusion of the past and present into an exact science by demonstrating the unity of disease and treatment.
Nature Owe an Exact Science One of the reasons why Nature Cure is not more popular with the medical profession and the public is that it is too simple.
However, it remains a fact that "exact science" reduces complexity and confusion to simplicity and clearness.
At least, so far as it is the word of exact science on the subject it is convincing; so far as it is speculative, or philosophical, it is or is not convincing, according to the type of mind of the reader.
The Wordsworthian sense in nature, of "something far more deeply interfused" than the principles of exact science, is probably the source of nearly if not quite all that this volume holds.
I contributed the discussion of our work in exact science.
Natural science had been cultivated among us with great success, but I was obliged to point out our backward condition in every branch of exact science, which was more marked the more mathematical the character of the scientific work.
That objection, as Jevons says, would, perhaps, apply to meteorology, of which nobody doubts that it is capable of being made an exact science.
The obvious general reply would be, that Political Economy cannot be an exact science because it also deals throughout with human desires.
But why does nobody doubt that meteorology might become an exact science?
Their main doctrines, it is suggested, were little better than mares' nests, and we may set aside their pretensions to have founded an exact science.
In the second place, the assumption made tacitly, at least, if not avowedly, that political economy is an exact science is wholly misleading.
They further treat it as if it were an exact science and a great moral question as well.
Political economy covers a wide range of subjects of which the tariff is only one; but in none of its branches is it an exact science.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exact science" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
