science

He then took a cursory view of the present state of the science and explained many of its elementary terms.

There only remained a resolution to return to my ancient studies and to devote myself to a science for which I believed myself to possess a natural talent.

The notion of "data" is familiar throughout science, and is usually treated by men of science as though it were perfectly clear.

When, in what follows, I speak of data, I do not mean the things of which we feel sure before scientific study begins, but the things which, when a science is well advanced, appear as affording grounds for other parts of the science, without themselves being believed on any ground except observation.

Step by step, before the advance of science, they have been driven back.

A period wherein science was raped by the metaphysicians, wherein physics became a search for the Philosopher's Stone, wherein chemistry became alchemy, and astronomy became astrology.

If he did not try to conceal his satisfaction at coming into possession of this fortune, which enabled him to give himself up to his passion for pure science, he had equally to rejoice, it seemed to him, for another cause.

It could not at the time be imagined that her passion for science would lead her so far as to refuse all the suitors who presented themselves to her for over fifteen years.

He studied the science of herbs, the science of unguents; he became an expert in fevers and in contusions, in sprains and abcesses.

Up to that moment, he had lived only in science; he now began to live in life.