Which preposition to use with science
That in the neighbouring kingdom of Siam he had formed an intimacy with a learned French Jesuit, who had not only taught him his language, but imparted to him a knowledge of much of the science of Europe, its institutions and manners.
I do not care a fig about melody of voice, or science in quavering; I am not talking about sweetness of tone; what I mean to say is, that I do not believe there is a man living, even though he have no more voice than a raven, who is human, and yet never sang to the baby, always assuming that he has one.
The visitor to the Natural History Museum in 1894 need go no further than the Great Hall to see the realisation of my hopes by the present Director.]] VIII BIOGENESIS AND ABIOGENESIS (THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE FOR 1870)
But it is my belief, and I have carefully studied the subject in all its bearings, that the crowning gift of Science to Man will be the system of PRUNING FOR CONSUMPTION.
And thus geology is (or ought to be), in popular parlance, the people's sciencethe science by studying which, the man ignorant of Latin, Greek, mathematics, scientific chemistry, can yet becomeas far as his brain enables hima truly scientific man.
Science on this, as on other occasions, is merely augmenting and methodizing facts that the mass of mankind had long observedas, that red hair had always been considered indicative of warm temperament; that affliction, and even love, were believed to create baldness; and that in great terror, the hair stands on end.
Probably the great problem of getting at the secret of energy led him into his attempts to study the mysterious electrical waves radiated by lightning flashes; at any rate he was soon as deep into the subject of electrical science as his countryman, Hertz, had ever been.
I give the record of the earth's progress in the past, as it is written upon the rocks, standing out upon precipices, brought to light by the researches, and translated by the energy of science from forgotten and buried ages.
This, however, has not been done, and most probably the inquiry will at once be madeTo what end burden science with a new and strange term in place of one old, familiar, and part of our common language?
[1870] (The Presidential Address to the Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Liverpool.) IX GEOLOGICAL CONTEMPORANEITY AND PERSISTENT TYPES OF LIFE (Address to the Geological Society on behalf of the President by one of the Secretaries.) X GEOLOGICAL REFORM (Presidential Address to the Geological Society.) XI PALAEONTOLOGY AND THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION
It remained for our race, under the teaching of both, to bring science into act and fact.
The words in which he expresses this conception, in the treatise on elementary chemistry to which reference has already been made, mark the year 1789 as the commencement of a revolution of not less moment in the world of science than that which simultaneously burst over the political world, and soon engulfed Lavoisier himself in one of its mad eddies.
But thou, a man of dark and mystic aims, Tracking out Science through forbidden ways, Leaving the light and trodden paths to grope 'Mid fearful speculations and wild dreams, May'st hunt thy Will-o'-the-wisp until thou lead'st Our sister, all unwitting, to her death.
Considered as a fact, it is the statement of observed processes, and belongs to positive science like the observed courses of the planets, or any other observed regularities and uniformities.
But he must be a half-hearted philosopher who, believing in that possibility, and having watched the gigantic strides of the biological sciences during the last twenty years, doubts that science will sooner or later make this further step, so as to become possessed of the law of evolution of organic formsof the unvarying order of that great chain of causes and effects of which all organic forms, ancient and modern, are the links.
And, even if they can learn something of science without prejudice to their usefulness, what is the good of their attempting to instil that knowledge into boys whose real business is the acquisition of reading, writing, and arithmetic?
SEE Kimball, Edward A. Antwoorden op vragen over Christian Science en hare mededoogende roepstem.
ROBINSON, HENRY MORTON. Science versus crime.
Again you may, if you please, place in the third rank those Epistles through which we may be able to arrive at the science about divine natures.
The book is entitled: An historic, dogmatic, moral, liturgical and canonical explanation of the catechism, with an answer to the objections drawn from science against religion, by the Abbé Ambroise Guillois, curate of Nôtre-Dame-du-Pré, 6th edition, etc., a work approved by His Eminence the Cardinal Gousset, N.N.S.S.
Dominion over physical law requires a certain knowledge of science beyond the physical as well as a working knowledge of the spiritual laws.
It is somewhat customary to speak of this age as an age of doubt and pessimism, following the new conception of man and of the universe which was formulated by science under the name of involution.
I answer fearlesslyThe prodigious development of physical science within the last two centuries.
" Phillips now gave up, in despair, the attempt to propagate science among the Moors.
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