Then we gather as we travel Bits of moss and dirty gravel, And we chip off little specimens of stone; And we carry home as prizes Funny bugs of handy sizes, Just to give the day a scientific tone.
Now, I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass--at least, to all intent; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent.
Send me to the Arctic regions, or illimitable azure, On a scientific goose-chase, with my Coxwell or my Glaisher!
On Mars, there exists an excessively slow loss of atmosphere, oxygen and water, against which intelligent beings, if they do exist there, may have protected themselves by scientific control of physical conditions.
A scientific analysis of the cloud by astrophysicists here on earth proves it was of atomic origin.
A Navy scientific project recently found that strange radio signals are constantly being sent out from a "hot spot" in the Milky Way; other nebulae or "hot" stars may be similarly identified by some peculiarity in their radio emanations.
Glancing through it, I, saw excerpts from nineteenth-century astronomical and scientific journals and extracts from official gazettes.
The danger from meteorites has been partly discounted in one scientific study.
Louisa Holcroft married Carlyle's friend Badams, a manufacturer and scientific experimentalist of Birmingham, with whom the philosopher spent some weeks in 1827 in attempting a cure for dyspepsia (see the Early Recollections).
The probability is that the worst that could be alleged against him was a tendency to scientific pedantry in his published writings, which was pretty sure to tickle the fancy of Mr. Sterne.
His scientificturn we see in his detective stories; his poetic nature we see struggling against this intellectual exactness in the following sonnet: Science!
Poe had what may be called a scientific mind, infused through and through with poetry.
Hence it is that the mining outlook is encouraging, and that in the opinion of scientific experts the industry in Queensland has scarcely yet passed the infantile stage.
Yet it is admitted that the apparatus used was "not a perfectly scientific one, because it does not produce a core by means of which the nature of the strata and the angle and direction of the dip can be fully ascertained.
I dwell on this because there should exist no misconception as to the scope of the Queensland University, especially in regard to what is called the classical side of instruction, in contradistinction to the scientificor practical.
Competent authorities have expressed the opinion that truly scientific farming is only possible where irrigation takes the place of rain, and where the elements of fertility are retained in the soil.
Antiquated husbandry, crude processes, and wasteful management were superseded by modern scientific methods.
Author of numerous scientific and technical reports printed by the Canadian Government.
Author of Papers on Botanical Subjects, including Morphology and life history of Bryophyta, Pteridophyta and Gymnosperms, in scientific journals.
Author of A Descriptive Account of the Mammals of Borneo, and numerous papers in scientific journals.
It is evil,--evil at the root; and except by physicians and scientificmen it had better be let alone.
Such was Franc,ois Magendie, physiologist and torturer, judged by scientific men and physiologists of a higher race, to whom compassion was not unknown.
It is an instructive and interesting fact that one of the first steps toward the legal regulation of vivisection in England was taken by scientific men.
At present the greatest harm is done true science by men who conduct experiments without preliminary knowledge to choose, without judgement to carry out, withoutout true scientific training or method, and only in the interest of vanity.
In all the literature of what is known as "antivivisection" is it possible to find a more emphatic condemnation of scientific cruelty than this?
We sincerely trust that this interview may be the means of putting an end to the unjustifiable brutalities too often inflicted on the lower animals under the guise of scientific experimentation.
The author's moderation in discussing this burning question will appeal to a much wider circle of scientific readers than a policy that demands complete annihilation of all animal experimentation.
If one could be sure that it would always be conducted by intelligent and educated men, with due appreciation of scientific aims, yet in thorough sympathy with humane motives and objects, it would undoubtedly be of use.
After explaining his position in favour of scientific research, the editor refers to a recent discussion on vivisection in London: "Dr.
Will you try to look out for a fit servant for us,--simple of heart, physiognomically handsome, andscientific in vaccimulgence.
The conventional view of Coleridge that opium killed the poet in him does not commend itself to the scientific consciousness.
European names are given, with of course thescientific characteristics.
Some of the finest scientific brains in the country are working on the problem, and he would be a bold prophet and probably a false prophet that would set any bounds to its possibilities.
We have travelled far and deep in scientific study, climbed high in art, and grown through grand religions.
There are different authorities and "schools," much disagreement and dispute and varying conduct based on our various scientific beliefs.
On the contrary, one of the surprising qualities of Women and Economics is its readableness throughout--the really absorbing interest of its argument even to the least scientific reader.
The maternal sacrifice" is what our scientific friends call it.
With a countryman resident in the Philippines, Doctor Meyer made careful and thorough scientific investigations, and his conclusions were more favorable to the Filipinos than the published views of many of the unscientific Spanish observers.
At times there were rumors of Rizal's speedy pardon, and he would think of going regularly into scientific work, collecting for those European museums which had made him proposals that assured ample livelihood and congenial work.
Rizal was paid for these specimens by scientific books and material.
A scientifictechnical control, the only kind that is indispensable, is altogether beyond the capacities of the trades-unions.
From the foregoing it will be readily seen that the Bolshevist coup d’état interfered with the consummation of a most painstaking, scientific effort to solve the greatest of all Russian problems.
Well, scientific truth compels me to say that fatigue is a surer and stronger sedative than a clear conscience even.
One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.
Sensitivity and emotivity have also been used as the scientific term for the capacity of feeling.
In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.
Reason is the power of apprehending those first or fundamental truths or principles which are the conditions of all real and scientific knowledge, and which control the mind in all its processes of investigation and deduction.
In a scientific manner; according to the rules or principles of science.
The science, or the scientific treatment, of synonymous words.
These Rules Work ¶ Every rule in this book is based on scientific data, has been proved to be accurate by investigations and surveys of all kinds of people in all parts of the world.
This course in Analyzing People on Sight is as scientific as the automobile.
The reason is plain to every scientific investigator.
Scientific discoveries, unless they have to do with some new means of adding to his personal comforts, are taboo.
It deals with man in the light of the most recent scientific discoveries.
Everything scientific is based not on guesses but laws.
North, desiring me to furnish any facts within my reach, relating to the scientific character and general opinions of the late James G.
Of this remarkable production it may very briefly be said, that it will ever remain a monument to the scientific and literary powers of its author.
He was a perfect martyr to his literary and scientific conscientiousness.
Let us grant here one brief parenthesis of respect and astonishment to the scientific knowledge and philological acumen of a distinguished graduate of Yale College, and member of Congress, whom we encountered on our travels.
A remark he made to a scientific friend, who had just been married, will, perhaps, throw some light on the subject.
The interior of the Floridas has not been explored by scientific travellers; it is chiefly inhabited by the native Indians, the Europeans confining themselves mostly to the towns.
Exile in Paris provided fresh opportunity for scientific study, though his connection with the English Catholic malcontents, and his services to the Queen Henrietta Maria, who now made him her Chancellor, absorbed much of his time.
His scientific and controversial treatises, not at all unreadable, and full of strange old lore, survive as curiosities never to be reprinted.
Exile in Paris meant friendly intercourse with, and consolation of the Queen, but also scientific research.
Of late this saying of Newton's is frequently quoted as if Newton were a downright contemner of scientific hypotheses.
And yet theory originally {6} fashions science out of facts and is the indispensable precondition of every important scientific advance.
But not only does it seem that there is little appreciation among biologists for the scientific import of imagination, they also appear to have little sense for the significance of theory.
I shall leave it to others to decide whether he can properly be called an "opponent" of the principle, in the scientific acceptance of the word.
The true Gentleman is the scientific mixture of strength and courtesy--the manifestation of "the iron hand in the velvet glove.
If you would understand what a scientific demonstration of an article or proposition is like, it would pay you to listen to the demonstration by a well-trained salesman of the National Cash Register Company.
It depends largely upon the scientific application of suggestion.
And very docile disciples they are who imitate his method even to the extent of defaming and abusing their scientific opponents.
And outside of Germany the same sentiment is shared generally by the leaders of scientific thought.
This means nothing less than a complete subversion of all scientific methods.
On the contrary Haeckel's own scientific colleagues were the first to discover and publish the matter some time in the seventies, and in consequence excluded Haeckel from their circle.
To my mind, the scientific and logical bankruptcy of Darwinism was never announced more bluntly and ingenuously.
Every intelligent observer must conclude with absolute certainty from this confession of a Darwinian, that Darwinism is, in fact, not a scientific but a philosophic theory of nature.
This force is created by the whirl of the earth upon its axis, and is easily utilized, although your scientific men have as yet paid little attention to it.
Many scientific men think the people of Mars have been trying to signal us for years, only we don't understand their signals.
I entrusted to you gifts of rare scientific interest--electrical devices of such utility that their general adoption by mankind would create a new era in earth life.
It seems hard to entrust such great scientific discoveries to the discretion of a mere boy; but they are quite harmless, so if you exercise proper care you can not get into trouble through their possession.
At present the practical side of this invention will be more interesting to you than a review of its scientific construction.
The kitchen, the dispensary, the ventilation, and the general arrangement, showed that scientific care and forethought had been observed there.
The notes of that fearful clinic are preserved, and may some future day startle the scientific world with their clearness, their candor, their positive evidence of the cause of death.
Scientific men, from Dioscorides to Orfila, have extolled its virtues in this respect.
The hospital system of the rebels was quite complete, and most of their hospitals throughout the country were well constructed and equipped; and some of them were models of neatness, comfort, and scientific arrangement.
That the bacon could not furnish this deficiency must be apparent to the scientific observer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scientific" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
