When I get to science, I scrunch down in my seat and wait for the day to be over. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Zero’s absence would stunt the growth of mathematics, stifle innovation in science, and, incidentally, make a mess of the calendar. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

At this singularity the laws of science and our ability to predict the future would break down. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around me were seabirds, egrets, and herons, as well as species of murky fish, many of them probably unknown to science, the only evidence of them the occasional spiny fin rising from the surface. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He sees that the new science relies on new standards of evidence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Science was a mystery, perhaps because the only science book I’d ever read had had detachable pages for coloring. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We must learn the science and technology that provide the only conceivable tools for our survival. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned, peering across the table with the basketball players, next to the science fair geeks. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The ultimate success of esperimento reflects, just like the phrase philosophie experimental in French, the influence of the English language and of English science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

From this rich tradition of aviation attention science—dating back to World War II—there grew a new field. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She wanted to hire women, but by law she had to choose from lists of people who had taken civil service exams in math or science. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She talked about history the way I felt about science. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Well, ballooning is not an exact science, you know. Besides, you might be needed here.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I hate science the most out of all my classes. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

But in science, a word is a hypothesis. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Studies show that in single-sex schools, girls take more nontraditional courses like advanced science. They worry less about how they look, they’re more competitive, and they have higher self-esteem.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt reluctantly got rid of them, feeling it was a terrible “loss to science.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“That it’s possible to create a cure for polio. That it’s possible to sequence the human genome. That it’s possible to find a way to reverse aging. That science can change the world.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

All of which brings us to the key point: the ancients, particularly in the classical period, had no notion that equates exactly with our modern conception of “science.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Around me, kids are going back and forth between the social studies and the science room where the wall usually is, and they don’t seem nervous at all. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Seething, Ivy put the drawing back in her locker before she ripped out a piece of paper from her science folder. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Their invention is part and parcel of the invention of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They felt strongly that their children should be well educated in both the arts and the sciences; they saw God as a father who educated people through people. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was knowledgeable in all the sciences: botany, astronomy, psychology, anatomy, alchemy, geology, chemistry.... The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The counselor had recently tried to redirect him from his focus on English to more of a science and math orientation so he could take something practical, like engineering, in college. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But what really set the world of science on a new path was the vision that Rutherford set forth at the close of his paper. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He disagreed, as Jesse recounted it, but then conceded that he really “couldn’t argue with my science.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother—the one who once wrote about science and magic and miracles—let it die. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We always work on projects together and were thrilled when we got our schedules during orientation and saw that we had three of our classes together: social studies, music, and science. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There was also a science book, which must have been for young children because it was filled with glossy illustrations. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In this dispute the question of the relative merits of ancient and modern science was at first entirely secondary. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

During long walks along New York City streets, Sam gave Gold a basic education in tradecraft—the art and science of spying. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He claimed science as his religion and then argued that the planets must be inhabited because otherwise God had made worlds for nothing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh my goodness. Zabardast! My jelly beans worked! I knew it. Isn’t science amazing? Think of it! Oh, the wonder of what I have done!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a fake skeleton—the kind they have in science class.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His next assignment was working chemistry boot camp at Velma T.’s house to make up for blowing out the chemistry room windows during science class. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They applauded her understanding and the deep science of her counter-flattery. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was another option, which was to use an existing phrase that avoided the term ‘philosophy’—‘natural science’—and this usage was common in the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This language reflected the revolution that science was undergoing, but it also made that revolution possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Although Charles discussed religion and science with Gray and other close friends, he demurred when strangers wrote to him asking what he believed about God. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer duly contrived “an elegant theory to rationalize these results,” and when Bohr came for his visit, the work was trotted out for him as a showpiece of Rad Lab science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Every four years, an international group of educators administers a comprehensive mathematics and science test to elementary and junior high students around the world. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Levy has been teaching science at Emerson Junior High for centuries, and he looks like a mad scientist. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Even before the deuton affair, some Rad Lab researchers were questioning whether the cult of the machine had not overwhelmed the drive for basic science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I’m in the science lab hallway, and several people, in fact, are asking me why I’m jumping up and down, and I’m not telling them.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The meeting in Oxford did not do much to further serious discussion about science and religion. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There on the paper was a diagram of one of the weapons that had been pointed at Moss and his friends in the science lab. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He argued that he could match science, math, and computing skills with anybody. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is an old-fashioned way of writing the history of early modern science in which Copernicus, Digges, Benedetti and Gilbert are presented as scientists, although none of them used the word of themselves. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There were AP classes and academies—public health, visual arts, environmental science. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

If you evolve such a universe forward in time according to the laws of science, you will end up with the lumpy and irregular state you started with. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the field of government is often termed “political science” and the Nobel Prize in economics refers to “economic science,” history departments rarely if ever label themselves “Department of Historical Science.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like having a high-stakes lottery ticket, only with science involved. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Nathan was surprised how easily he remembered his science project research. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Like, the smaller things get, the crazier science becomes. When you start talking about p-branes and quantum immortality and entanglement...Well, it’s just cool is all.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I understood everything when she explained it, and got hundreds on a social studies quiz and a science lab thanks to her. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because they were not conducting normal science, they never finally resolved the problems that puzzled them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

All of this represents just a small part of Boyle’s work, although it is the part that is most relevant to the story of the development of science in the seventeenth century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Laws of nature were now what science was all about. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

All the strands of this story—the accident, attention science, the law, and Reggie Shaw—came together on December 11, 2008. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I really considered this study a social science, not a hard science, and I wasn't interested in the squishy stuff, so I had stayed away. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I never felt like I was very good at science, but I loved the lab. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Like the first time in science class, when the teacher brought in a tubful of dead frogs, bloated with formaldehyde, and the Navajos all left the room; the teacher said those old beliefs were stupid. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Digges was not only a scientist, but one of the first popularizers of science—not quite the first, since he followed, to some extent, in the footsteps of his father, Leonard. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Evidence-Indices is what we are referring to when we say that science depends upon evidence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Hitler, imprisoned for leading the Beer Hall Putsch, the failed coup attempt to seize power in Munich, read about Ploetz and race science while jailed in the 1920s and was immediately transfixed. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I thought science was all experiments and laboratories,” I admit. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

"You have to read more science, man," he encouraged. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A rosy-cheeked and diminutive instructor of technical sciences named Dr. Hauptmann peels off his brass-buttoned coat and hangs it over the back of a chair. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When it comes to evidence, the new science was not inventing new concepts but recycling existing ones. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

No one knows who took that picture, but it’s appeared hundreds of times in magazines and science textbooks, on blogs and laboratory walls. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In Cambridge, a group of young students gathered around Bateson to study the new science of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

So, too, in French you find ‘physic’ in the singular, not the plural, to mean natural science: e.g. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Ideas and hope started sparking together inside me, reminding me of the way my mother used to be—excited by science and life and questions. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But when the Greek gods came to Rome, the Camenae were identified with those impractical deities the Muses, who cared only for art and science. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This culture emerged at a particular moment in time: before it came into existence there could be no science as we understand the term. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She worried that he was so busy with his science that he wouldn’t look elsewhere for answers. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only after I saw them scrawled in my science lab book that I saw what Gramps meant. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, there was a whole world for Luna to learn—science, mathematics, poetry, philosophy, art. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

If thinking were enough to engender the new science it would have begun not with Galileo but with the fourteenth-century philosopher Nicholas Oresme. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She loves science, all of it—biology and physiology, planet earth, the universe, creatures both animal and human. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The discussion soon yielded a formal offer from Conant of a $12,000 salary to cover a full professorship, along with the deanship of a new graduate school of engineering and applied science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth’s faith in science made her less anxious. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I chose this and let the science go.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believes that science is going to transform the world and that the moderns have outstripped the ancients in every possible respect. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Along with being an unkind dig at astronomers, this tells us a bit about the methods of the natural sciences as against math. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She removed a folder from the bag and showed me my math, English, geography, history, and science lessons. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As you will gather from this, measuring earthquakes is not always an exact science, particularly when interpreting readings from remote locations. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“My Instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works,” Jonas told him eagerly. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first major thing you need to know is that the Greeks believed music to be both a science and an art, and that they developed theories and systems for music accordingly. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

To Nick, the whole thing was just one long—and successful—science experiment. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am not afraid of point of view, and am a sucker for almost any debate having to do with science, computing, or many aspects of politics and philosophy. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, it’s not the outlandishness of its conclusions that makes something a pseudoscience: lucky guesses, serendipity, bizarre hypotheses, and even an initial gullibility all play a role in science as well. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A man of science, and yet you believe the myths. You believe in the might of reason, but you also believe in fairy tales. Goddesses and curses.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Most historians do not think of themselves as scientists and receive little training in acknowledged sciences and their methodologies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Them people don’t know nothing about science,” she told me. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Sonny, it may take a while, but I believe you can learn the things that are in this book. Then,” she smiled, “maybe Quentin and I will finally convince you to enter the science fair.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My boy, although I have had my doubts, there are moments, such as this one, when I believe you are quite capable of learning. How about the science fair this year?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Naheed, what are you doing? Were going to be late for science.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“What do you know about African-Americans and science?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

One might be forgiven for thinking that it is Temple and Swift, the critics of modern science, who live in a disenchanted world, not Wotton, its advocate. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you can grow up, study science, and explain it to me.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The figures on the cornice symbolize the mathematical sciences, with Urania, the muse of astronomy, in the centre. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is easy to say that our world has been made by science or by technology, but scientific and technological progress depend on a pre-existing assumption, the assumption that there are discoveries to be made. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The elegance and grandeur of the theory, however, persuaded him that the observations must be in error, a conclusion drawn when the observations are unobliging by many other theorists in the history of science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pericles delighted in philosophy and science, and Anaxagoras was one of his principal confidants. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other about botany, the science of plants. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

By the time she hit middle school, she’d won just about everything there was to win — science fair, debate team, gymnastics, soccer, synchronized Tae Kwon Do. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The head of the entire Hatchery operation, Dimitri was an upper-level worker; he was older, and had studied science intensively. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And we cannot opt simply to ignore the distinction between good and bad science, because if we do we will miss one of science’s peculiar characteristics, that it makes progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I glance at the science fair rules, which I tucked into my binder way back in January. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

A striking example of Bloor’s inability to acknowledge that nature constrains science is to be found on p. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

All joking aside, Don was becoming something of a food science scholar. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to cause problems for science,” Sonny told me as this book went to press. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He wanted the rest of the house to be a home for Emma; he did not want the science to take over completely. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole thing had come to resemble a giant science fair, with teams of girls proudly showing off their various projects. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The science project Jessie had made was resting on the side table next to the sofa where Oliver’s letter and his haiku lay on the armrest. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Part of it might be what I represent: progress, science, and the interplanetary future we've dreamed of for centuries. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kepler, on the other hand, lectured on astronomy in schools, published extensively and often at his own expense, and wrote science fiction, which was certainly not intended primarily for his scientific peers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like what isn’t, in the pursuit of science?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Life is one big science experiment for Dad. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story contrasted those demands with the science showing that when someone was being responsive, it wasn’t the same thing as being effective. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He majored in political science and English and by going year-round he graduated in three years. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought that was just some science fiction myth.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Isabella watches me like I’m a science experiment, and Julia looks back and forth between me and Tyler like she’s at the movies. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

We live in an era of social science, and have become accustomed to understanding the social world in terms of “forces,” “pressures,” “processes,” and “developments.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

That means that we do a science-type project in science class, and we write about it in language arts class. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started to tell them that I’d seen the snake—that I’d been seeing it all year in the science hallway—but they pressed on, sweeping the conversation away. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There is a delicious irony in this because Hobbes believed factual knowledge was a truly inferior kind of knowledge, science consisting solely of deductive knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“The science museum in Chicago has a rocket simulator.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They take the view that science is, in essence, common sense applied systematically, or, as Karl Popper put it, ‘common-sense knowledge writ large, as it were’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is amazing that such an institution, exerting so much influence on academic science, has been able to remain so absolutely autonomous. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Taylor was around six, he expressed an interest in science. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In almost all cases, the tests measure strictly math and reading skills, so even science and history have been de-emphasized. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

No medieval natural philosopher had a view of natural science as making progress, and no medieval natural philosopher was engaged in research, if we understand that to mean the gathering of relevant new information. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Logic, reason, pure science: these, Aronnax insists, are the proper ways to pursue a mystery. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the past decade, science fiction had become popular in radio, comics, and film. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Growing up in a family of engineers, Valentina was comfortable in the sciences and performed well in all testing. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My science teacher says it’s quacks like Sagarsky that give real scientists a bad name.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Even when conducting serious science his manner was generally singular. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

How might you use music to “enhance” a science or language arts lesson? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I liked that we were going to write research papers for Mrs. Turton’s class and that we could choose any subject we wanted as long as it related to science. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Day 2 A problem in the deployment of the boom that supports the science scan platform. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Plain Dealer is the real paper. The Sun Press is just local stuff: city council meetings and zoning boards and who won the science fair.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: did the universe have a beginning? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After science, Bernard asks me if I want him to take off his armband so I won’t get into trouble. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The ACT was composed of four sections: math, English, science and reading. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In England, farm breeders had refined the creation of novel breeds and variants to a highly sophisticated science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The word ‘science’ comes from the Latin scientia, which means ‘knowledge’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He soon aspired to construct a new science of morality and politics on geometrical principles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

None of this will stop me from telling much of my version of the history of science in terms of the people involved, including Newton. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I had Mr. Milo for math and science in the mornings and Miss Ehlis for English, history, and social studies in the afternoons. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight is more like a science seminar, and under the circumstances, everybody seems pretty comfortable. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an elegant demonstration of how to organize applied science, and for this reason it would have been a surprise if it had not succeeded. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roof a series of glass plates above the science and art rooms. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Bishop Jansen, the founder of the sect, had declared that science was sinful; curiosity about the natural world was akin to lust. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The hardest task for me was writing a final paper for my science class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Together we’d convinced the science club to join the Galaxy Zoo project to help scientists classify galaxies. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I told that to my science teacher once—that preservatives cause cancer—and he laughed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In other words, science evolves, and it does so because theories that fail to develop, or that are unable to adapt in the face of new discoveries, are eliminated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So I told her about the Cobalt Blue Orchid, about the science and its magic. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Keep it up,” she said,“and there’ll be no more gaming. No science museum with your father. And no harmonica. Keep it up.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

In which case there can be no science without a concept of evidence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“And I’m going to have a talk with the organizers about conflicts of interest. If your parents donated the new computer science wing?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

This was an accident and a witch hunt; the prosecution felt the defense had insulated itself from science and reality. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

This discovery—called regression to the mean—would have a powerful effect on the science of measurement and the concept of variance. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In some respects we are like the physical sciences of the early twentieth century, booming along into new territory, but without an equivalent for the engineering of that time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the publication of his novels The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau in the mid-1890s, he became known for his innovative scientific romances, today known as science fiction. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Without science I was just another stimulus-response cave dweller howling at the moon. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Since each of these changes was necessary for the construction of the new science we should be wary of trying to rank them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She had to use notecards to tell the judges about her science project. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Much of this chapter has been concerned with the language of science, as much of the book will be, but the book’s argument is also and equally about what Leonardo called ‘the test of experience’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We might get ideas for our science reports, she said. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Even after deciding to obtain a Ph.D. in physiology, I nearly dropped out of science during my first year of graduate school to become a linguist. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I loved him because he made it plain, never mystical or esoteric, because his science was not rooted in the actions of spooks and mystery gods but in the work of the physical world. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Thomas knew enough about science to realize that a Martian invasion couldn’t be true. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Phusis became the source of physic, which at first meant natural science and later was the word for medicine. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He puts more spicy sauce on his pork, looking guilty, as if learning something in science class is a crime. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The first great, practical achievement of the new science was Newcomen’s steam engine of 1712—the very engine Swift was presumably mocking when he complained about mills being built where there were no rivers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Aristotelian philosophy had been based on the idea that one ought to be able to deduce sciences from generally accepted first principles, so that all science would be comparable to geometry. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Art and science referred to the de Young Museum and the Academy of Sciences, which were on either side of the concourse. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Many wise people believed that there was nothing much left for science to do. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Rosewater said an interesting thing to Billy one time about a book that wasn’t science fiction. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In science, we watch a documentary about Rachel Carson, the conservationist who wrote a book called Silent Spring. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Harvard’s campus was big, and I had no idea where the science building was, or how long it’d take to walk there. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Now when he should be enjoying the rewards accorded the most prestigious chair in science, he had to be responsible for the outrageous antics of an unsuccessful genius. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Several professorships of “race biology” and racial hygiene were established at German universities, and racial science was routinely taught at medical school. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And just what should the scientist and the citizen learn from the history of science? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They seem, that is, to feel that traditional philosophy of science was correct in its understanding of what knowledge must be. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Gey just gave the cells away for free, she said, for the good of science. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Nora says, “Nate Silver won’t stop blowing up my phone for another column. Bought some new curtains. Narrowed down the list of grad school concentrations to statistics or data science.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The important thing about the science of Galileo and Newton, Pascal and Boyle is that it was, in part, successful, and that it laid the foundations for future successes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In 1637 he finally published the Discourse on Method and three essays on mathematics and natural science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Recognizing the inadequacies of postmodern history of science does not mean that we should simply go back to Kuhn or to Koyré. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If anything, they came with more experience than the white women applicants, with many years of teaching experience on top of math or science degrees. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Gone in a moment. Ended. In the years that followed, pursuit of knowledge was punished. All science and inquiry were dead. Which brings us to you,” he told the delegates. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“But they hatch new ones every year in science,” Julian added. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The bunk master announces schedules of byzantine complication: Mondays are for mechanics, state history, racial sciences. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes. It’s about time for Nathan to go back to Phoenix. I can finish his science experiment, do the measurements, and send it to him,” Nali said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The idea of modern science also raises, however, a set of further questions which are tied together in Weber’s phrase ‘the disenchantment of the world’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for medical science, artists or the poor? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The matter was even worse because the two, almost equal in age, knew each other and, before Francis remarried, had frequently met for lunch or dinner to talk about science. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The new science has to be placed in this local context. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Petra got bitten by a hamster, and in the science room Calder accidentally allowed a box of hissing cockroaches to escape down a heating grate. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Gilbert and Galileo were developing a new type of science, based upon systematic experimentation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“After all the times I have been dragged to science fairs for you? Come on, Roli. It’s Iguanador Nation Rises,” I tell him. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

For my science project, I’m going to make a model of the moon’s surface and perform an experiment to infer how the moon’s impact craters were formed. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

"That's the science of designing replacement parts for the human body." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And don’t say you suck at math and science. That’s such a cliche when girls say that. Even if it’s true, just lie.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The assumption was that any extraterrestrial intelligence capable of receiving the message would recognize the maths and the science and quickly make sense of the Earth-specific information. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Now it’s going to be scaled back. There will be fewer opportunities for kids to do things that are not math, science, or English.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

If there was one term that summed up the new science for those who were involved in constructing it, it was not ‘evidence’ but ‘experience’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The new science of fortification was taught by mathematicians, Galileo among them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and science. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The essential wildness of science as a manifestation of human behavior is not generally perceived. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know that hallway down by the science labs? The creepy one where the football players always take their girlfriends to make out?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I had seen her in the school a bunch of times last year and heard about her much more frequently in Ms. Solomon’s science class. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They arched over the main lobby, the gym, and clusters of science and art classrooms. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Doubting that Christianity or Protestantism was a precondition for the Scientific Revolution leaves plenty of scope for studying the interaction between faith and science: e.g. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Sarah Johnston, who did her science paper on zombie ants because they had scared her. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

These, too, were called sciences—but philosophy and theology were purely conceptual explorations that lacked an accompanying applied skill. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting," he once said, in a line that has been used many times since. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The study of variation and dip evidently depended on collaboration between navigators and intellectuals, but so did the whole science of cartography. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s fair to say it’s interfered with science,” he said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, um, sorry, but I left my science paper at home this morning?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

At first I am horrified by the ghoulish skinned squirrels, as red and muscular as skinless human bodies in Miss Larsen’s science book. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

As is often the way in science, the principle had actually been anticipated three years previously by an amateur chemist in England named John Newlands. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was kind of cool talking about science stuff with someone who was actually interested and understood. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Having completed his science schedule for the day, he checked his watch. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Newton’s genius involved defining these terms rigorously and linking them to each other via a nest of equations—thereby launching the science of mechanics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Dead rabbits, muskrats, opossums, and fish were also found in numbers, and one of the local schools made the collection of insecticide-poisoned birds a science project. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The new science was, compared to what had gone before, based on distrust, not trust. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I hung out with Jack in homeroom, English, history, computer, music, and science, which were all the classes we had together. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

In business, education, science, and so forth, most productivity is determined by an evaluation of employees or students, and funding is often allocated based on that assessment. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Around it was a hodgepodge of classrooms, a hall, a library, a tiny chapel, a science block, a manual arts workshop, and more classrooms. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“You don’t think you are a science person?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Keeney was already at his desk, reading another paperback science fiction book. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

His eighth-grade project, “A Study of Air Flow in Scaled Dimensions,” scored third place in his school’s annual science fair. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Has there ever been another art so devoutly converted into a science as the art of parenting? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Yet many of the ideas of science fiction, like submarines and travel to the moon, have become matters of science fact. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, Sonny,” he gasped, catching his breath, “we win the science fair with our rockets, it’s got to help us get on down to the Cape.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to escape to a place where he could meld science and socialism more easily. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Thus according to the common-sense view the science of extraterrestrial beings, if they exist and if they are intelligent, must, where it overlaps with our science, agree with it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Though the piece carried no byline, the style was Owen’s and no one in the world of the natural sciences doubted the authorship. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And every day my Government gives me a count of corpses created by military science in Vietnam. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the public mind, this kind of technology has come to seem like the equivalent of the high technologies of the physical sciences. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the cumulative effect was a fundamental transformation in the nature of our knowledge of the physical world, the invention of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Kilgore Trout became Billy’s favorite living author, and science fiction became the only sort of tales he could read. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One reason why the new science made progress and the old philosophy did not is that it was conscious of being imperfect and incomplete. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Lawrence had spent a difficult year cadging money from philanthropists and foundations for a proton accelerator, the purpose of which had to be explained to them in the abstract terms of basic science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Small horned toad. Rude as it is spiky. It’s stealing my seeds for my science experiment. I figured you’re a Holy Being, it’s a Holy Being. Maybe you know each other?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I am awful at science, but half of the packet is just filling in the periodic table. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“He might not be up for science magazines right now,” Mom answers. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

We do not yet have a science strong enough to displace the myth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence’s withdrawal from the policy debate also reflected his long- held conviction that science and politics made for an unwieldy mix. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Thus, in simple terms, Bentley was right: the new science did undermine belief in magic and witchcraft, just as it undermined belief in astrology and alchemy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I found the science book, with its colorful illustrations, and the math book I remembered from years before. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Unless you promise to stop stealing the seeds for my science project.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As so often happens in science, their discoveries only whet the appetite for more research, which in turn created a demand for bigger, more expensive accelerators. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

On the other hand the science teacher, Jose Tapia, was always lecturing us on how fortunate we were because we were young and Latin. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Temple knew very little about science, much less than Wotton, and lacked any inclination to make good this deficiency. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It said, “Pounding in the back of their heads was a gnawing feeling that science and the press had taken advantage of them.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Glanvill would presumably have been shocked to learn that Boyle and Newton did not share his views, but it was he, not they, who had grasped the relationship between alchemy and the new science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was being so un-Twig-like, paying attention to our science experiment, so I tuned them out and started doodling snowflakes and flowers in my notebook. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She would recite poetry to calm us down and get us ready to learn more science or history. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What would you say if I told you I just kissed Patrick in the hall behind the science lab?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

In short, I acknowledge that it is much more difficult to understand human history than to understand problems in fields of science where history is unimportant and where fewer individual variables operate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever I’d had science or math questions for school in the past, we’d sit down at the dining table and spread all my worksheets and equations and diagrams out in front of us. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So it was the science fair that had brought Tamika to my doorstep, as hypothesized. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

We cannot understand science without studying the history of these foundational concepts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Quinton won it after placing second at some international science fair forever ago. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

When I walk into science class I notice that Mrs. Curtis has rearranged the room. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I want to tell her that cooking is basically chemistry, which is a kind of science. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We had made out a few more times, hiding in the shade of a tree, or up against the back wall of the science building. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Remember that science never actually “proves” anything; it merely contributes to a growing body of evidence about the way our world works. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If they reached the bottom at terminal velocity...well, she knew enough science to know it would be terminal. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As an unforeseen bonus for the purposes of this book, evolutionary biology is a historical science forced to use methods different from those of the laboratory sciences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The science teacher laughed loudly, for a long time; he even had to wipe tears from his eyes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He read broadly in philosophy, science, art, and religion and was known throughout Chicago’s upper echelon for his ability to converse on almost any subject and to do so with great wit. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He had written a science fiction novel called The Lazarus Door, which was wildly popular. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But Emma had grave doubts that science was the answer to everything. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is among the most fundamental precepts in attention science. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Today we are starting our physical science unit, and we will begin with magnets'.” Mr. Neely said, trying to be chipper as usual. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Since then, this science has developed in more or less parallel with biology, but more quietly. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In high school he was admitted to a Texas magnet school for math and science, where students acquire college credit. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Not only did she not know any science, but any attempt to put some in her head would be a losing fight against the years of her convent upbringing. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Despite all the resulting conflicts and contradictions, which remain with us still, it was the idea of discovery that made the new science, and the new set of intellectual values that underpinned it, possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Naturally, Marxist historians have wanted to argue that the new science was the result of new social relations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Instead, she relied on the science of cryptology. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Numbers and “science” have appeal for these people only if they’re tied to them personally. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our former technical sciences professor, Dr. Hauptmann, has called our attention to the discrepancy. He has arranged that you will be sent to a special technology division of the Wehrmacht.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He became the fountain of philosophy and science and art. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped out of the house, careful not to disturb my science project—the Foucault pendulum suspended from the porch roof. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the founding concept of modern social science: David Hume’s theory of the balance of trade and Adam Smith’s conception of the market depend on the concept of a feedback mechanism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They wrote letters to Congress and the mayor’s office demanding recognition of Henrietta’s contribution to science. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Thus by 1543 two revolutions had come together to make possible a new type of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I hope you will publicize the fact that you made this plea . . . mainly because of the possibility of public opinion harmful to science,” he wrote Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Out of the eight periods a day, I only saw Tina in three—language arts first period, lunch fifth period and science seventh period. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a little silence, “Sometimes,” he added, “I rather regret the science. Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people’s happiness. A much harder master, if one isn’t conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever someone tells her how good I am at art, she reminds them that I’m good at science and math, too. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Why do you want to win the science fair?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The great German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe later marveled at how easily she moved back and forth between art and science, between the “inspection of nature and the aims of painting.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To get away from wars and censorship and statism and conscription and government control of this and that, of art and science! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The science books explained the causes and effects. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Germany had dominated science in the early twentieth century: it had been the crucible of atomic physics, quantum mechanics, nuclear chemistry, physiology, and biochemistry. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

These opening lines of H. G. Wells’ 1897 science fiction classic The War of the Worlds maintain their haunting power to this day.* Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had always eschewed the mystical side of alchemy and focused on pure science. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

By now the new science of bacteriology, pioneered by Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, had convinced most public health officials that contaminated drinking water caused the spread of cholera and other bacterial diseases. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Just to make sure everything was still “educational,” he gave us a twenty-minute lecture about the science of snow before he set us free for the rest of the hour. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“They couldn’t throw in 1 Sports Illustrated. What do they have against basketball and football? And what about boxing? Did you know that’s called the sweet science?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

After school, Mabel and I split up our science assignment on the 31, hopped off around the corner from Trouble Coffee, and went in to celebrate our excellent time management with two cappuccinos. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I supposed she must have been sniffing around, wanting to get a whiff of my science project for next year. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The challenge now is to develop human history as a science, on a par with acknowledged historical sciences such as astronomy, geology, and evolutionary biology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the library and used a part of my day reading science fiction, and in its marble washroom I changed my bandage. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole story would scarcely rate a footnote in the history of science, except for one thing. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Not when she was really young, like Fred did. We had a good science teacher in junior high. That might have been the turning point.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I pull out the wrong textbook, and then my science folder spills to the floor. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He would have sold his body to science to spend the most memorable night of our lives together. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I took it into Scooter’s room and made up a story about a school science project. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I said, “was he interested in science?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps I am, but I have a--almost a second sight, sometimes, that tells me what to do. Maybe you don't believe that, but science----" He paused. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Many Ionians believed the underlying harmony of the universe to be accessible through observation and experiment, the method that dominates science today. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not believe in your science,” said Henry. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could almost forget about Dad bumping around the kitchen, navigating pots and pans he rarely used, and me stumbling through the science homework she’d always helped me with. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She packed her math workbook and her science reader. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had loved natural history since he was a boy; he wrote late in life, “my love of natural science has been steady and ardent.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first astronauts, those chosen few, experienced what once was only found in science fiction books. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Carlisle swam to France, and continued on through Europe, to the universities there. By night he studied music, science, medicine — and found his calling, his penance, in that, in saving human lives.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Which is how I ended up with Remo as my science fair project partner, but that’s a whole other story not worth telling. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I’m treasurer of the science club and this year is the year I will win the science fair. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He had been delivering an old print from one of the science labs to the guy with the big eyebrows, who was a publicity man working for the university. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She got antsy watching science shows; she’d throw pillows and try to grab the remote, but if you interrupted her at the end of a book, you’d pay. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

So I grew up convinced that science was supremely dull, but suspecting that it needn’t be, and not really thinking about it at all if I could help it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

For Galileo’s rejection of the view that success in science can be based on rhetorical prowess, see below, p. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Art and science referred to the de Young Museum and the Academy of Sciences, which were on either side of the concourse. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

These young women, who would have to back up their science with magical spells should their patients be disappointed and not get well, now hurried to get to classes on time. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the realists, we must insist that it is not so difficult to tell good science from bad, as long as you agree that knowledge should be carefully and systematically tested against experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Let me see what kinda science project you done dragged up in here,” she says. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Their measurement had been sheer luck, or a case of knowing the result they wanted to get, not an uncommon occurrence in science. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with the new science came a new kind of history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We have seen that Renaissance science went beyond Greek science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It would harm science, he argued, to “endorse what appears to be an unthoughtful program.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Cayley is a minor but not insignificant figure in the history of science and technology; but there is no doubt that our sense of his significance derives entirely from hindsight. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The study of human history does pose real difficulties, but those recognized historical sciences encounter some of the same challenges. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If we won the science fair, that would show him, wouldn’t it? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wren, my music teacher, was just as annoyed at me for forgetting my trombone as Mrs. Kastor had been about my science paper. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The central quest of the study of heredity seemed like an object perceived only through its shadows, tantalizingly invisible to science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Many people use science to debunk religion, but Reverend Scheffler enlisted science to bolster his beliefs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m probably going to get killed in science,” I say. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I had nine classes: mathematics, accounts, biology, computer science, and physical science were easy. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I told Archie what I had thought in prison about him; that his brain, which could tape-record hundreds of number combinations a day, should have been put at the service of mathematics or science. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he has little use for me away from the team, and he has no use for me at all in science class. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

First came the science, then came the technology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We go to 4th period, which for me is science. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Experts on both sides of the debate worry that compensating patients would lead to profit-seekers inhibiting science by insisting on unrealistic financial agreements or demanding money for tissues used in noncommercial or nonprofit research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

This is the element that distinguishes applied science from basic. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It included food science, this particular lesson being on Correct Menu Form and the question of what one should place first on the menu when writing it out, shrimp cocktail or Jell-O salad. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t need people talking about me like I was some kind of thing they was studying in science. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He channeled his intellectual powers into the science of mixology. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On the important subject of science and the decline of magic the work done by the last generation of historians is curiously unhelpful. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Campbell could not disagree with Europeans’ condescending view of American science as a backwater rich in money and manpower but poor in theoretical understanding. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They had some kind of advanced science class together. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

If I thought about it like a science lesson, I wasn’t scared at all. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Basel and Muhammad took great delight in describing the science teacher’s nose; it was longer than the pointer he carried, they said. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

As Charles had said, all the sons were doing wonders, though not all in science. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In science this began to change only in the course of the debate on the ancients and moderns at the end of the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They are tied to networks, reliant on phones, eager to communicate their messages and science, use technology to develop and further it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

For some considerable period this uncompromising interpretation has been the dominant position in the history of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Dad's off in science land with his pal the professor. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But today in science, when Mr. Levy starts calling out lab-partner assignments, I don’t get even the lightest tingle. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

This accidental discovery is, incidentally, entirely typical of the history of science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pinch of the Depression forced many research philanthropies to reduce their grants for basic science in physics and chemistry, but money still flowed abundantly for projects in biology and medicine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Dona Amelia says nice things about how I’m on the honor roll and especially excel in science class. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chief difference between them and our modern scientific myth of the Big Bang is that science is self-questioning, and that we can perform experiments and observations to test our ideas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What exactly was it that enabled seventeenth- and eighteenth-century science to make progress in a way that previous systems of knowledge could not? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In England, Kuhn claimed, experimental science flourished from the late seventeenth century onwards, science conducted in the tradition of Bacon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Will we all be renaissance children, skilled at every art and science, because we’ve had the time to master them? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Ours is not an exact science, but we do what we can do.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The subjects we would now call ‘science’ formed, in the sixteenth century, part of philosophy, so Montaigne’s ‘Apology’ is, among other things, an attack on the science of his day. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

How can students of human history profit from the experience of scientists in other historical sciences? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A study indicates that whether or not a department has a mathematics or a statistics requirement is the most important single determinant of where a woman will attend graduate school to study political science. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the ersatz patina of science, Mengele’s work was of the poorest scientific quality. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“This is the science lab,” he said when he got to the next door. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

But laboratory experimentation can obviously play little or no role in many of the historical sciences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the Viking science teams selected candidate latitudes for which there was more than one promising site. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bantu schools taught no science, no history, no civics. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Coach Murphy was a husband, an eighth-grade science teacher, and a dad. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Where did you learn this fact? On the reservation? Yes, we all know there’s so much amazing science on the reservation.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

In 2010, high school students in Shanghai, China’s largest city, finished first in an international standardized test of math, science, and reading proficiency given to students in sixty-five nations. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But no one knows for sure, which is why it’s a mystery of science. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Finally the new science was given a distinctive identity by a new language of facts, theories, hypotheses and laws. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Sophisticated printed illustrations based on perspective drawings thus turned anatomy into a progressive science, where each generation of anatomists was able to identify mistakes and oversights in the work of their predecessors. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The deuton, Livingston added, “was what made the Berkeley laboratory famous. We were opening up a whole new field of science.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I wonder if there is some way I can turn the many faces of the moon into a science project. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Avid inventors tend to swamp physics departments and science magazines with blueprints for incredible machines—machines that eternally generate power without any source of energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I quickly gave up on using one after I left mine in science and math on the same day. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“But this is important. Really important. The correspondence school is offering a science course.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine? Then I can understand all that science about my mother!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Last year, when Roli won the state science fair, we had a special dinner there. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Anna was my science partner for the plant unit, and I liked working with her. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He was a rich man, indifferent to his wealth but passionate about science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, of course, the world was about to enter a century of science where many people wouldn’t understand anything and none would understand everything. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I told the story of Henrietta’s cells and what they’d done for science, my voice growing louder as the congregation yelled “Amen!” and “Hallelujah!” and “Lord have mercy!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

So there can be no science until there is a reliable way of publicizing knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’d hoped to spend all of science class today doodling up ideas for the new designs, and dreaming up travel plans for Mom and me—but Mr. Neely surprised us. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As regards the first question, an entire field of science, termed ethnobiology, studies peoples’ knowledge of the wild plants and animals in their environment. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the informal Torricellian network marks the effective beginning of the institutionalization of science, driven by the conviction that collaboration and exchange would lead to more rapid progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Esperanza had told him that a man named Guillermo was responsible for that; her parents could study the science behind those plants, but were horrible at any gardening themselves. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Nathan then went to the cornfield and re-sowed the traditional group, glad he was able to finally begin his science experiment. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The discipline of history is generally not considered to be a science, but something closer to the humanities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Charles was not all science by any means: He bathed the baby, kissed him, hugged him, walked him when he cried; he was anything but the stereotypical distant father so often portrayed in Victorian literature. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am very calm, as if I’m in science class conducting an experiment. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Nathan grew excited, knowing that soon he could continue with his science project. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

These arts and sciences provided students with the foundations for the later study of philosophy and theology, or of medicine or law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“They’re like me and Zion. Sharing genes from the same parents. It’s science. DNA. Zion and me were born right after one another. Twins. Me first,” she brags. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

While Vavilov and other geneticists languished in prison, Lysenko’s supporters launched a vigorous campaign to discredit genetics as a science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And replication is an essential part of science: a discovery isn’t considered valid if others can’t repeat the work and get the same result. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There is no other species on Earth that does science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he’s trying to distill all of these ideas into easily digestible chunks—science meets pop science. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

This ‘nothing’ is important because it undermines the standard account of the origins of experimental science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Almost at once popularizers of science tried to come up with ways to make these concepts accessible to a general audience. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The most striking innovation of the nineteenth century, as far as the language of science is concerned, was the introduction of the word ‘scientist’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He shows no anxiety that science might be associated with unbelief. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And then she hurled it straight at the gigantic cauldron full of poison, hollering, “For science!!!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Any civilization able to intercept Voyager in the depths of interstellar space, its transmitters long dead, would know far more science than we do. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t care about the science lab or the math classes or the typewriters. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Too much research in the social sciences, in fact, is a mindless collection of such meaningless data. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's the look on Mom's face that makes me talk back to Dad, because she isn't buying his little science speech either. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We demonstrate the reliability of modern science at every moment of every day. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But it was the best of times for science in that this very peculiar tumor gave rise to the HeLa cell line. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But its effect on the nascent science was profound: it locked a system of thinking into place. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The phrase ‘modern science’ was first used by Gideon Harvey in 1699, in the course of an indiscriminate attack on both the old and the new philosophies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can’t see the other. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Galileo had laid the foundations of science and pointed the way for others; but there was plenty for others to do in building on those foundations. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Before you go,” says Ms. Oliverio, “news flash: the science fair will be held on February fourteenth—Valentine’s Day.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Next to motion study and astronomy, photography was the science nearest to Dad’s heart. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a word not typically used to describe science, or scientists. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And Carousel Carl—the guy from that science show I used to love. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In science Pascal investigated the vacuum—the nature of the void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the 1660s the Royal Society looked back to Bacon as the first to enunciate the principles of the new science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Jessie had built the water wall along the eastern facade of the brownstone, inspired by a science class during which her teacher showed them different cartoons of Rube Goldberg machines. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Your daughter’s interested in science. She shows great aptitude. You should encourage her.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

At first the dreams were just numbers and words and bits from science class. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He knew all about science, about model rocketry, chemistry sets, baseball cards, about American history. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 2013, Taylor placed fourth in an international science competition, comparing texting while driving to driving under the influence. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“If you wanna keep working, go for it. Far as I’m concerned, we’re only fixing the posts for your science project. And since it’s a prairie dog, no need to fix the fence.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

English, as the most common language in the country, was used in teaching mathematics, history, geography, physics, biology, religious instruction, woodworking and domestic science. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m in the basement when she’s on the third floor, I’m in the gym when she’s all the way across the school in Orchestra Hall, I’m in the science wing when she’s in Spanish. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The science was easy; it was concentration that eluded me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I said it the other day when I couldn’t find my science notebook and she told me I was silly for asking a saint to find my stuff. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Instead, it took the patronage of the “decadent” Ptolemies to put ancient Greek science—and book collecting—on a firm institutional footing. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“Your friend performs delightfully,” he continued after a pause, on seeing Bingley join the group; “and I doubt not that you are an adept in the science yourself, Mr. Darcy.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

We have seen that science is an enterprise we have invented and agreed to play by certain rules. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m beginning to forget, I think. What they ever felt like. It scares me, what science can do.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

American television viewers tuned in religiously to science fiction television programs like Space Patrol and Tales of Tomorrow. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Richard even took books from upstairs, books for adults, with heavy titles about history and science. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Bring the kid by the science lab,” he offered as we walked from the drop-off loop. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But this twist effectively marks the birth of a new philosophy of science: a scientific principle is now an hypothesis that has survived the test of experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Uncle Paul points out all the science magazines perfectly arranged on the table. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He must’ve had it in his backpack, because he wasn’t wearing it this morning in science. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Knowing that he had never been trained as a teacher, the school asked Mendel to sit for the formal examination in the natural sciences for high school teachers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

"I couldn't be a scientist. I'm no good in science." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A second objection to the strong anthropic principle is that it runs against the tide of the whole history of science. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

From there he attended Alabama State Teachers College in Montgomery and earned his bachelor of science degree. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each true-or-false question taught the user—and the alien—basic Earth science facts. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He only learned of Mary Jackson’s double major in math and science after he made her the offer to join the Four-Foot SPT group. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Several hours later, just before midnight in fact, Dr. Malone parked her car outside the science building and let herself in at the side entrance. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first and last periods of the day, science and language arts, do cross-curricular projects together. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He encouraged her to read science texts to improve her understanding of the world around her. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We can do science, and with it we can improve our lives. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The divisiveness among scientific disciplines, especially between the basic sciences and the applied science of medicine, was then fostered deliberately by medical schools. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I trained astronauts, talked them through their science experiments while they were in orbit, and often went to Cape Canaveral for launches of the space shuttle and other rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gilbert Lewis remained rooted in small science, happily puffing away on his acrid black cigars at a workbench festooned with hand-blown glassware. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then, just as the bell rang, she reminded us to drop off our science papers at her desk on the way out. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Sure, sometimes they watched videos in science, but today they were supposed to continue working on their theories and experiments. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I'm wondering why science is a better discussion topic than politics, but I don’t say anything because that would be entirely too cheeky. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They were not arts, and it would have been incomprehensible to claim then, as we do now, that philosophy belongs with the arts, not the sciences. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Always taught her to do this with her science projects over the years. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

This is one of the great unsolved problems in science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Notwithstanding the bad science, it sounds pretty good,” he says. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Telling the time accurately was, of course, another big problem in the 1560s, long before the development of accurate clocks—one of the many examples of the interdependence of science and technology. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was very different, of course, with the sciences of cartography and navigation, ballistics and fortification. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Yes. They knew how to combine science and religion so the two worked side by side, neither denying the other, each enriching the other.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1876, elected President of Bowdoin College, where he attempts to modernize the school, introducing courses in science, de-emphasizing religion, and becomes involved in student demonstrations over the question of ROTC. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regiomontanus’s praise of the mathematical sciences did not, however, imply uncritical admiration for contemporary mathematicians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mendel applied to the University of Vienna to pursue a degree in the natural sciences. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

On Monday, in science, I give Bernard an armband. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

One geologist later described it as "probably the most significant paper in the earth sciences ever to be denied publication." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It is not surprising then that not everyone was convinced of the practical utility of the new science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Imagine a time before science, a time before libraries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In science terms, the Earth would travel around the sun twice before I would be able to go back home for good. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

To understand that language completely, science had to conquer the infinite zeros. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Myths are early science, the result of men’s first trying to explain what they saw around them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Both. I mean, I’m starting at MIT in the fall for computer science and engineering, so this is a good thing to have on my CV.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We’ll get you a schedule as soon as the science team puts it together. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judge said he feared that some will view the decision he is poised to announce without understanding the severity and complexity of distraction science. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

However, if the new science is responsible, the mechanism is far from straightforward. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

That idea, as embodied by the cocktail party effect, is fundamental to modern attention science, and it seems so obvious. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I have no great quarrel with those who wish to read Wittgenstein as a relativist, providing they do not use this reading to justify a relativist history of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was as if the science fiction I had read all my life were coming true. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed Eliza wasn’t going anywhere until Naheed finally got her locker to pop open and yanked out her science book. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

J. G. Crowther has neatly summed up the real root of the problem, which Oldenburg fanned into flame: ‘Hooke could not understand what tact had to do with science...Newton regarded discoveries as private property’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But as a science teacher Tapia was state certified and was appointed to our school so there was no way for the principal to get rid of him. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He spotted Mr. Rizzo in his biology room, but as Rashid had suspected, most of the math and science rooms were clean, perfectly organized, and completely empty at the moment. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Later that year, he schemed a perfect way out: he applied for a job to teach mathematics, natural sciences, and elementary Greek at the Znaim High School. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Did the Nazi geneticists make any real contributions to the science of genetics? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The PA in my science classroom crackled to life. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The system of communications used in science should provide a neat, workable model for studying mechanisms of information-building in human society. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The biologic science of recent years has been making this a more urgent fact of life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, he described the machine’s capabilities for Karl Darrow, the lab’s eminent physicist and a writer of popular science articles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Now it’s apparently used to host community science events. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But since then, the pace of the development of science has made this impossible. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had earned a master’s degree in applied sciences, and he taught physics and chemistry during the weekdays at the all-black George Washington Carver High School in North Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But we also figured out how to do science, which helped us develop technology. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We agreed how weird it was that Tamika now lived in his old house and how sweet it would be for me to finally beat her at the next science fair. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A more thorough description of this idea, and its impact on natural sciences and philosophy, might be found in Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But this was all set in the framework of a huge expansion of the realm which science attempted to explain. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I had to run through the Saturday-morning deliveries pretty quickly, which wasn’t hard, as you might remember, since not everyone knows the basic principle of physical science. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I have chosen stories that represent the development of science in its historical context. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Rather it is to track the evolutionary process by which success has been built upon success; that way we can come to understand that science works, and how it works. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Although no one will ever accuse me of being much of a science student, one thing I learned from science classes is that energy is never created and never destroyed. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

By honoring both the invention of an essential instrument for large-scale research and the creation of a laboratory model to put it to use, the Nobel committee validated a sea change in science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But Molly, as the daughter of a physician, understood that she was witnessing the birth of team science; a new paradigm of a research lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dodge wasn’t even a real science teacher. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of his students was a bright young fellow named Walter Alvarez, who would eventually change the world of science in a quite different way. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And Father came round to the house that night and I was sitting on the sofa watching University Challenge and just answering the science questions. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s enough I gotta do math and science homework, but this man seems clueless about other teachers or other stuff going on in kids’ lives. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, initiation into the magnificent world of science brings great esthetic satisfaction, inspiration to youth, fulfillment of the desire to know, and a deeper appreciation of the wonderful potentialities and achievements of the human mind. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

So we leave the science guys in the parlor with no one but their adoring wives to cheer them on. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was an early hint of one of the emerging drawbacks of science funded on a large scale: the bigger the financial contribution, the more its donors wished to see tangible results from their money. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His entry in the Dictionary of National Biography is one of the longest, rivaled in length only by those of Darwin and Lyell among nineteenth-century men of science. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You’re welcome, Miss Grabby Hands. Aren’t you the science whiz? Don’t you know about forces and equal and opposite reaction and all that?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Growing up in this environment, the young Christiaan Huygens became simultaneously adept in languages, drawing, law, science, engineering, mathematics and music. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The intellectual apparatus of the new science—facts, experiments, theories, laws of nature, evidence—did not establish its worth by philosophical arguments; its success depended upon the fact that, in practice, it produced good results. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Question: Did you read all the rules and regulations regarding this year’s science fair exhibits?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“How can I? The science fair will do more to determine who wins the Excelsior Award than anything else this term!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

So in order to have any human interest in their stories, science fiction writers had to suppose that we would one day discover how to travel faster than light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strictly speaking, Brahe and Kepler weren’t quite the last mystics—but they certainly were, in astronomy at least, transitional figures between the mysticism of the Ancients and the science of Galileo and his successors. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The aura of science and medical research was meticulously maintained, often dramatized to achieve an even greater effect on public imagination. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

To summarize, the laws of science do not distinguish between the forward and backward directions of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m also going to set up a fresh flour/cocoa pan and let science fair-goers drop marbles to make their own craters. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

In science class, Mr. Z. told us about an experiment where they got this rat or mouse, and they put this rat or mouse on one side of a cage. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, though it is a work of science fiction, would be turned down because the word war appeared in its title. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thereafter, Tasmania’s population of 4,000 hunter-gatherers remained out of contact with all other humans on Earth, living in an isolation otherwise known only from science fiction novels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The scientists could determine if plutonium was present only by reading its trace radioactive signature; this was science performed not by observation but by deduction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In racial science lessons, children were taught Aryans belonged to a superior master race that was intended to rule Europe. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad, I need your help. I need to be ready for the science fair next week. I’ve got to have the stuff Mr. Caton was building for me.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

His speed in designing and building the apparatus was more impressive than the results he obtained, which matched Swann’s expectations and therefore advanced science by a tiny increment, if at all. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Even though I maintained an A average in all of my classes in middle school, I had a real aptitude for math and science, which is why my parents tried to steer me toward medicine. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Mother,” he repeated loudly rubbing in the science; and, leaning back in his chair, “These,” he said gravely, “are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least ten kids were absent from science—so many kids that we had to waste our time with worksheets. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without Lawrence, there would be no Rad Lab—none of the teamwork that combined the disparate knowledge and skills of physicists, chemists, biologists, physicians, and engineers into a new paradigm of science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Although we routinely knocked the tar out of them in football, there was no way any Big Creek student was going to beat Welch students head to head in a science fair. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

For Lavoisier, the appeal of the institution was that it provided him with the wealth to follow his principal devotion, science. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

That was when science first began to be controlled—after the Nine Years’ War. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Industrial Revolution was driven in large part by developments in chemistry, and yet as an organized science chemistry barely existed for decades. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The contrast between the two towering figures of Berkeley science was striking. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

An hour later, Nathan lugged a bucket to the cornfield to water his science project. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But science was not considered a valuable use of any young man’s time, and his headmaster admonished him for not paying more attention to his math or his Latin. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It orbits around the world. Like the moon, only closer. It’s got science stuff in it, measures things like how cold or hot it is in space. That’s what ours was supposed to do, anyway.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A science exam, which, for once, I did not study for. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The swastika in the science room hasn’t stopped us; it’s given us rocket fuel. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Volpe’s science teacher that first year used to break Life Savers in half with his teeth and put one part in his mouth and return the other to the foil wrapper to eat later. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He’s a man of science and the unsolvable problem is solved. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In other words, science is about facts, not fancy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Now Naheed knew for sure what Eliza had been upset about in science and why Mrs. Salinger had snapped off the television. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

We had our first meeting for the science project. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In fact, science has its fingerprints all over the kitchen.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

In between these undertakings, he somehow found time to conduct a good deal of solid science. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The following morning they received honorary doctor of science degrees for their pioneering spirit. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Strong family resemblance,” he muses, as if I were a specimen in a science lab. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

That’s another of the key emerging areas of science: Researchers explored the underlying mechanisms of focus, they also started to look at pushing the limits of attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Roy left a message saying he’d be home as soon as he and Beatrice finished cleaning up the mess from the science project. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained patiently how some of the sixth- grade classes moved around for math and reading and science, but Miss Harris kept the same group all day. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Some of the specimens were new to science, and it was considered one of the most important collections given to the New York City museum. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The weapon salve was thus to be brought within the sphere of experimental science, and strange facts were to be naturalized. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The result is a structural conflict in the nature of science, a conflict whose origins are historical. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Regiomontanus spoke in praise of the mathematical sciences, and he praised them by denigrating the Aristotelian philosophy taught in the universities. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"Who knows? Anyway, it was a pretty good insight into how unattractive science can get when you’re playing at a certain level." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Before I discovered the miracles of science, magic ruled the world. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The person at the head of the table was the greatest star of the young science of paleontology. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

"Some in science, some in sports, some in leadership. And yet, as different as each of your gifts is, together you form one body, an intricate part of one machine." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

This aspiration towards demonstration was not confined to what we would think of as the empirical sciences but was also commonplace in theology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I glanced up and found Ms. Hart, the science teacher, watching me. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the classical theory of general relativity one cannot predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In Mexican science, maybe. I don’t trust him.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I have to get some poster board for my science project,” I told Ms. Sandnes one day while she was restraining Leroy. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

How else could a science of psychology be built except by laboratory findings? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She turned a quizzical gaze on Finn as if he were some creature that had yet to be identified by science. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

To keep American science in full flower, he asserted, what was needed was “a more leisurely and normal research environment.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

At a time when most scholars were trying to separate the natural world into categories, Maria insisted on finding connections—between life stages, between insect and plant, between art and science. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If it hadn’t been against the rules, Cara Landry would have skipped down the hall, all the way back to her science class. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest questions in science and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She was keen for algebra, and she planned to major in science. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believed in science and reason, he said, not superstition and voodoo. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If Gilbert is an example of a new type of scientist, what makes this new science possible? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Primitive man, in noticing the relatively few natural coincidences in his environment, slowly developed the raw observational data out of which science evolved. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As such, Dr. Gazzaley thinks the concept of distraction provides a powerful lens through which to view the science of attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In my father’s science fiction book, the one that caused such a tremendous stir, all the aliens who’d come here through Lazarus Doors took the names of angels from the Bible and from the Koran. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m right next to one of the biggest private libraries in the world,” said Billy, meaning Eliot Rosewater’s collection of science fiction. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first real class of my first day is science with Ms. Oliverio. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Yet, in spite of these spectacular strides in science and technology, and still unlimited ones to come, something basic is missing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That book, which has been described as the most influential work in the history of science after Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions, presents a number of arguments which have become famous. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She rarely wears makeup, frequently shows up to class in mismatched shoes, and is obscenely passionate about science. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

All of this hit me in science class while the teacher was talking. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

But last summer, Roli showed me a secret—and why he loves it almost as much as he adores the science lab. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I was pre-enrolled in English, math, Spanish, physical education, social studies, and science. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And, naturally, the crucial topics for the new science corresponded neatly with the professional preoccupations of seventeenth-century mathematicians: astronomy/astrology, navigation, cartography, surveying, architecture, ballistics and hydraulics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Engineering, science, finance, computer development, teaching, banking. These all require mathematics.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Abenthy proceeded to give me a brief overview of each of the sciences. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So, the highest of all our complex technologies in the hardest of our sciences will soon be engaged, full scale, in what is essentially biologic research—and with some aspects of social science, at that. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the classes covered math, science, and engineering. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

To relax, he read science fiction and studied Einstein’s theory of relativity. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m only moving if I can have a science lab in the new place. With a Bunsen burner. And new Erlenmeyer flasks,” Jessie said stubbornly. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Because science is based upon observation and experiment, some critics argue that string theory is not science but philosophy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

One might think that the historians of technology would have wanted to question this disjuncture between theory and practice—but at first they were the same people as the historians of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The new language of science was above all a language which gave the new scientists tools for handling evidence, or, as it was called at the time, experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Like the idea of discovery itself, eponymy was soon carried over from geography into science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The young scientists’ expectation was that Swann would escort them around Europe, introducing them to his friends and acquaintances among the eminent figures of European science in a sort of belated and truncated Studienreise. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There is in our time much Ionian science, although not in politics and religion, and a fair amount of courageous free inquiry. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world was strange if you stopped to think about it; still it was a world that could be controlled by science, and the Brotherhood had both science and history under control. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working late was considered “bad taste, bad form, bad science.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Only a few years hence, MIT president Karl Compton, himself a physicist with a cyclotron at his command, would issue his lament about the introduction of “an abnormal competitive element” into academic science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She and I get permission to go straight to the media center from science. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A major battle between small science and Big Science was taking shape in the run-up to the Solvay. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This strategy, which also works well in chemistry and molecular biology, is so identified with science in the minds of many people that experimentation is often held to be the essence of the scientific method. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And I’ll sweeten the prize. Whoever finds the most interesting piece of garbage will receive one Get Out of a Pop Quiz Free card for science class.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It takes me a few streetlights to get him to admit that there are plenty of things that science called crazy before they were done. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect—the knowledge of the brain? Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Anger sends out a strange energy, like a force field in a science fiction movie. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

As philosopher of science Karl Popper has emphasized, a good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They gonna have a lot of doctors there talking on different subjects and different areas of the science field,” she said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t quite understand the science of it. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Whatever the enemy may be planning, American science will be equal to the challenge,” Roosevelt wrote to Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “essential unity of science,” as he described it, means that “an advance of the horizon of knowledge in any direction uncovers territory of all the sciences.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Congress admonished the brain busters not to waste taxpayer money on “science fiction” and dreams of manned spaceflight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

To ignore this science is to engage in self-deception, to tell ourselves a lie. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In lots of science fields, the researchers get to know one another’s work and often collaborate. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It is probably safe to say that no two people in the natural sciences have ever despised each other more. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The row of lightning rods in the red sky looked like some weird science experiment, like NASA’s model home on Mars. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one knew that better than Levi’s technical consultant, who managed to sneak in the occasional sponsored moment about the wonders of a career in the sciences in the midst of the building fun. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

‘The treatment of natural things differs greatly from that of other sciences...In the explanation of natural causes, we must necessarily have recourse to a different kind of principle, called “hypothesis” or “supposition”. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Spud Lamp was a big hit at the science fair. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Swift had read Cyrano, and Gulliver is a cunning variation on the by then conventional themes of science fiction, one in which islands are substituted for planets. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Time travel was science fiction in nineteen seventy-six. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

If the relativist account of science were correct, every major paradigm shift ought to be accompanied by bitter disputes between competing intellectual communities: indeed it was Kuhn’s view that this is exactly what happens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“If this country spent half as much time on science education as cheering some idiot with a ball, you’d know who Jonas Salk is.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The Lackses challenged everything I thought I knew about faith, science, journalism, and race. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In Rutherford’s time, the Cavendish reveled in its tatty grandeur, the epitome of small science in an institutional setting. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Bring science, bring technology to her, and she’ll never really get it. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I read about that in science. It’s the fat breaking the surface tension.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the country the repository of art and science was the school, and the schoolteacher shielded and carried the torch of learning and of beauty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cambridge, England, was behind Cambridge, Massachusetts: at Harvard, George Sarton gave his first lecture course in the history of science in 1917 and became professor of the history of science in 1940. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Alchemy was never a science, and there was no room for it to survive among those who had fully accepted the mentality of the new sciences. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In other words: Don’t expect science to prove your faith. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But I do have a science question—about Tiny and me, and about her, and about cats. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

My dad used to say a good boatbuilder was partway an artist and partway a scientist, and it was the science part of Mr. Woodwell that was going to help me raise our boat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

This is not to say that it is not shaped by culture as well as evidence; but the culture which shapes it is, first and foremost, the culture of science itself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

All this time, I thought that Albert was the science guy with as much feeling as a pinecone. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

In his books, Newman looked for a new theology that could include science. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could send out our science, of course, but just think of the wincing at this end when the polite comments arrive two hundred years from now. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The basic principle of physical science is this: two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Do you understand that?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This kind of science has been termed “neuroeconomics,” a subset of which is known as “delay discounting.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Within a few days it became apparent that Herman’s mind was not going to concentrate on science for some time, for perhaps as long as I would remain in Copenhagen. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Before becoming a fiction writer, H. G. Wells had taught science and published two biology textbooks. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

We cannot be absolutely sure, because the records of the trial have been lost; but rather than being a martyr for science, as he is occasionally represented, Bruno was actually a martyr for magic. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

"No, I swear, I have a question about science," I say. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Pascal’s lust was greater than his religious fervor for a time, because he would use science to unravel the secret of the vacuum. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

So, yes, I’m adding a marble-shooting robot from outer space to my science project. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly it seemed that there was a hitherto unacknowledged problem with the word ‘revolution’ and indeed with the word ‘science’, too, for these are our words, not theirs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know yet what my project would be next year, but it was sure to eclipse anything Tamika came up with for the seventh-grade science fair. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

My backpack was loaded down with some extra books that I had borrowed from the library for the science project. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The orchestra room was far from the science wing, where Mr. Wrigley was slowly progressing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Who knows if I could possibly figure out the science part of what he’s talking about. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

My answers for the science portion couldn’t even be called guesses. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As is so often the case in science, the new developments went hand in hand with new developments in technology. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

His enquiry into the prehistory of the idea of the circulation of the blood was the beginning of the history of science as a learned enterprise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They tell the story of the birth of science, of its infancy, and of its extraordinary transformation into the great colossus under whose shadow we all now live. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And it was to those with a very high IQ, he believed, that “we must look for production of leaders who advance science, art, government, education and social welfare generally.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Books on the history of science always forgive Einstein this lapse, but it was actually a fairly appalling piece of science and he knew it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The process of abstraction it teaches is an essential precondition for the new science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“It seems to me the cost of experiments coming in the category of ‘pure science’ ought to come out of the funds of the university.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I wound up with As and Bs in English, science, social studies, and Spanish, and a big, fat D in math. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lit up anytime he got to visit a school science fair or a youth sporting event. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But Malpighi’s greatest contribution to science was made as a result of work he carried out in Bologna in 1660 and 1661, and reported in two letters that were published in 1661. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The school year has just ended, and on my top-secret final exams I scored the second highest in social studies and the highest in science, out of the entire eighth grade. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least Mrs. Hawkins, who taught general sciences, was there, collecting papers, gathering things up at the end of the day. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

When he has a science project, she’s on the floor helping sculpt the volcano with him. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“But my parents want me to be good at math and science, not art.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Scientists seeking a step-by-step guide to the novel science of artificial radioactivity needed to study Lauritsen; those seeking a foreshadowing of the new science’s possible harvest consulted Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He would prove to us, dipping into die science of human behavior, that the only difference between us and outside people was that we had been caught. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure she knows the exact science of it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And she still saw a distinction between her momentary lapse of judgment and focus, and what science said was a widespread and systemic problem caused by cell phone use. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was one of my favorite teachers, a tiny dark passionate woman with circles under her eyes who taught political science. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s science. Archaeologists dig up fossils and stuff, and they can tell how old things are. Cockroaches—I mean crawlers—are really old and they’ve never changed much,” said Gregor. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At best, history is classified among the social sciences, of which it rates as the least scientific. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“First of all, if you have not yet picked a topic for your science report, please, please come and talk to me after class. You should be well into researching it by now.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Within history of science, one post-Wittgensteinian tradition has been particularly important: it is often called Science and Technology Studies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The College was dedicated to improving the science of medicine, and its member physicians were among the best educated and most experienced doctors in the United States. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

But plenty of science was already on hold while researchers, universities, and biotech companies sued one another over ownership of various cell lines. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, sweetness. I’m not a real science teacher. When I was growing up, there were nine planets. It never even occurred to me that that could change.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

In politics, science, philosophy and literature this was the period of the Enlightenment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Between science and math, Daryl Williams smiles at me in the hall. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I say science at the same time that he says love, and we both laugh. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In Mr. Ferris’s physical science class we were distilling aspirins, very large aspirins, which by the time the last bell rang Mr. Ferris said he needed. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Yet dividing by zero destroys the fabric of mathematics and the framework of logic—and threatens to undermine the very basis of science. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Early in life, she’d expressed an interest in the sciences, but her father thought she’d have no culture and so at Cambridge, she studied French literature. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“The science fair results will be officially adjusted,” Dr. Throckmorton continues. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“The science elective is supposably the hardest elective of all,” he said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, isn’t that interesting,” the fake science teacher said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She assigned her class fun science, art, and history projects, and she wasn’t a yeller like the other sixth-grade teachers. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was almost impossible to imagine that he would never again see the man, hear his laughter, or twist his arm to get help with his science homework. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Both sets of terms, like their Greek originals, included the whole study of nature, animate and inanimate—thus Boyle’s Physiological Essays of 1661 are about natural science as a whole. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Yet it would be wrong to think that they shared any common understanding of what natural science is or how it should be conducted. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You know, I was thinking... Theresa is real busy with that stuff, so maybe you should do the final report for the science group. You know, on a computer.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With all its imperfections, modern science is a technique that is sufficiently well tuned to nature so that it works—it is a practice that allows us to learn reliable things about the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Its consequences for the history of science have been, it seems to me, pernicious. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the recognition by Pythagoras and Plato that the Cosmos is knowable, that there is a mathematical underpinning to nature, they greatly advanced the cause of science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are more like perfectly tooled but crazy little machines, and we violate science when we try to read human meanings in their arrangements. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that theologians should answer questions about religion, scientists about science. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We won a place in the science books,” I said. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They wanted him to “donate” it to the science club. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

So, too, no New Scientist, no science pages in the New York Times where the newest work could be reported, compared, commented on. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Fosdick had no good answer to the dilemma now facing science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah I do! I got a fifty--four on my last test. I suck at science!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

These two debates, about thinking and knowing, interlock because both generations have downplayed the idea that the new science was grounded in a new type of engagement with sensory reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kim had taught science with enthusiasm if not much scholarship. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He said this: “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He gently placed the envelope inside his science notebook and rushed into the classroom. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The teachers seem to like me too, especially the social studies and science ones. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the day of the earthworm dissection, Justin and I sat in the science lab, staring down at the tray in front of us. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The new sense of the word ‘theory’ is fundamental to an understanding of what the new science claimed to do. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be more than a schoolroom science lesson in the discovery of the fungus. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Their new science was organized around the virtues of a juge d’instruction: intellectual rigour, a set of formalized procedures, a quest for a complete proof, a confidence that one need only answer to other professionals. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some historians of science want to argue that you cannot have laws of nature without voluntarism, and you cannot have voluntarism without an omnipotent creator God. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

All the important science Blumberg has done over the years depended on free and unlimited access to tissues. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I went to the science lab, to see if Mr. Powers would do some experiments with me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the “science” keeps changing with every new study. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

My science book says that hair grows at a rate of one centimeter per month. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three people who between them established both the scientific method itself and the pre-eminence of British science at the end of the seventeenth century were Robert Hooke, Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“But if you could tell science like a story, I’d pay attention. I liked your story about the sea stars and the oysters.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Einstein had been fascinated by Bernstein’s People’s Book of Natural Science, a popularization of science that described on its very first page the astonishing speed of electricity through wires and light through space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One can take this either as evidence of a divine purpose in Creation and the choice of the laws of science or as support for the strong anthropic principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I not only learned about physics at Fort Hare, but another precise physical science: ballroom dancing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in science and technology, thinking how I'd pinch some chemicals and swallow them whole because I couldn't stand the thought of going back to being Paki-Boy. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believed in a child-centered education that promoted understanding the world from the child’s level, taking into account individual development and concrete, tactile experiences such as working directly with plants, minerals for science, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The new science destroyed the old one taught by the philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“As long as it’s got something to do with science, no matter how tenuous the relation, I’ll take it.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She got herself some basic science textbooks, a good dictionary, and a journal she’d use to copy passage after passage from biology textbooks: “Cell is a minute portion of living substance,” she wrote. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They were also keen to insist that the history of science be done by historians, not by scientists. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But once a science establishes itself it becomes, to a remarkable degree, autonomous, immune to influence from other fields. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I take the long way around to class, hoping I might be able to peek in at Roli in the science lab, which is on the way. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

On Friday, the math and science hallway is covered in hay. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

As we have seen, Hellenistic science, the science of Archimedes, provides an interesting test case. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We were to pick any science topic, research it, and write a report on it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The source of that confidence was a sustained programme of advertising the new science through public lectures and books conducted by the disciples of Newton, above all by Desaguliers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Thus we are not dealing with a transformation reflected in a single pair of terms—‘natural philosophy’, which, in the nineteenth century, became ‘science’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Any science may be likened to a river,” says a Johns Hopkins biologist, Professor Carl P. Swanson. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Early on, Jim imagined himself becoming a doctor to treat such suffering, and his excelling in science classes quickened his interest. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I wished the day would have started with something else, like math or science. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Trixie didn’t believe that story about the science project,” I tell her. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Accuracy and certainty: these were the watchwords of the new science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Even though the science fair was over six months away, my declaration “I’ll be number one next year!” at the last awards ceremony must have really gotten to her. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He had once been a science geek, but the sixties had changed that. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The new science often presented itself as a system of axioms and demonstrations, in Galileo’s Two New Sciences for example, or Newton’s Principia, but it was always grounded in facts and, less surely, in analogies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In like manner, he did work in optics that transformed our understanding of light and laid the foundation for the science of spectroscopy, and again chose not to share the results for three decades. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They bloom like roses, I continue because it’s obvious I’m the only one who can speak with any authority; I have science on my side. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carl Sagan in Cosmos raised the possibility that if you traveled downward into an electron, you might find that it contained a universe of its own, recalling all those science fiction stories of the fifties. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

One person, starting from scratch, should redesign the whole of philosophy, including natural science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But science as a system of knowledge is more than a social construct because it is successful, because it fits with reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A history of modern science without progress fails to capture science’s unique feature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But, as Kuhn also grasped, the fact that even the best-established scientific theories may not endure does not mean that they are unreliable, and it does not mean that science does not progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

How could you have a science without experimentation? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As lower minds function, study, or ‘science,’ is concerned with a limited set of various types of things. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nineteenth century was the heyday of amateur science. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Although many people greeted the new forensic sciences with reverence, attributing to them a godlike power, they were often susceptible to human error. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The science enthusiasts quickly gathered round, trying to get a peek at the heavy-looking metal box he was holding—his notorious decibel counter. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I promise, one day, you won’t just see this as science.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Around Cange people whispered that it was obvious Farmer had the gift of healing, but they added, “Doktè Paul works with both hands”—that is, both with medical science and with the magic of sorcery. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

"And what makes you so sure that science is so reliable? Or that the university crowd has any better answers than the hocus-pocus gang?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Latour’s historicism misses a key point about science, which is that it is about matters which are the case whether we believe them to be so or not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Chinwe had never spoken to me, not even when we were placed in the same agricultural science group to collect weeds for an album. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And we looked with bated breath into the blank and expressionless features of the man of science, asking with our total beings: Do you bring us hope or disaster? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have this room to myself. And I will not leave a single, dumb science thing anywhere.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Down to the water fountain and cut to science lab. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And if you don’t have a real science teacher, then you pick one of the other teachers and make him the science teacher. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The agreement was never more than approximate, and it was based on a mystical belief that the heavens must be governed by geometry, not on anything that we would now call science. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

When she’d finished my speech just now, she’d been trying to show me up like she always did at the science fair. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I started the previous section of this chapter by presenting two alternative views of science, and I have argued that both have merit. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“A fancy fortune-teller with a bunch of college degrees. He uses science and computers to predict the future. He can tell you what’s going to happen in ten, twenty years.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Think of all the animals used in teaching science—in high school, vet school, and medical school. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The 1933 Solvay Conference on Physics brought together the sciences aristocracy, including a score of current or future Nobel laureates. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Our science class is officially called the Science of Social Justice. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

From 4 P.M. into the evening, I was lectured on military science by Colonel Tadesse, who was also assistant commissioner of police and had been instrumental in foiling a recent coup attempt against the emperor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imaginary time may sound like science fiction but it is in fact a well-defined mathematical concept. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad, “a man of science,” told us to take every bit of superstitious hogwash that came out of his mother’s mouth with a grain of salt. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The first argues that before Columbus discovered America in 1492 there was no clear-cut and well-established idea of discovery; the idea of discovery is, as will become apparent, a precondition for the invention of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But Gregory gave me a big nod, just like my teacher Mr. Hightower at my science fair in LA. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

In this case, both the music and lyrics are highly informative, as is the situation in which the song was sung, lending itself to integration through three areas: music, language arts and social sciences. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

His mom only worked part-time then, and his dad, who’d taught high school science, was off summers. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe this part of me—the science part—was there all along, like the seeds of an apple. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The eventual goal of science is to provide a single theory that describes the whole universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that what Rondon was proposing would be a major contribution to science. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

From the end of the seventeenth century, through sermons and lectures, through popular textbooks and dramatic dialogues, the new science was disseminated to a wider audience than ever before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You seem to really like science. Am I right?” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Aristotelian science was not like this: Aristotelian philosophers had no sense that their knowledge was incomplete in important respects, and they thus had a different measure of success from a Galileo or a Pascal. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He desired her calmly, initiating her into the most secret and most ancient of sciences. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may be that in all our reading science books and watching videos, this information had made its way to us before. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Fantasy and science fiction dazzled her, especially The Lord of the Rings. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, God was confined to the areas that nineteenth-century science did not understand. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dads finally want to talk deep science about the Bobby situation, and the rest of us will have to make the best of it. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What does building a paper airplane have to do with the study of library science?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

And there were seven fifth-grade teachers: two math, two science, two social studies, but only one language arts teacher. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would leave my science book at home on purpose so I could use the excuse of sharing hers. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since they gone ahead and taken her cells and they been so important for science, Deborah thought, least they can do is give her credit for it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

According to contemporary history and philosophy of science, there are no such things as killer facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For all his brilliance, real science accounted for only a part of his interests. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Four days before the hearing, they’d received the results from a study done by a forensic sciences firm in Salt Lake City that had asked the question: Was it likely that Reggie had hydroplaned? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s not how science should work, but it’s sometimes how writing must work. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps to do the great science he did, he had to focus entirely that way—to let religion in would have diluted his effort. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Davis, our science teacher, is showing a video. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“He was a man who studied crime and planned his career. His brain might have given science valuable aid.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“You might tell them that I met some teachers who were willing to teach me science,” I said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similar ones apply to other historical subjects whose place among the natural sciences is nevertheless secure, including astronomy, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, geology, and paleontology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That word choice is crucial because, while there is interesting emerging science around Internet addiction, there is a predicate question being asked by many scientists: Can behaviors be addictive, or just substances? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

His words made me feel like a science experiment. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Humbaba had the worst case of irritable bowel syndrome known to medical science. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I recognized her as Miss Riley, a Concord College senior assigned to Big Creek as a student science teacher. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the Adolf Hitler Schools, boys were trained in physical exercise, racial science, and loyalty to the Führer. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand a word of it. You may remember, Weeds, I wasn’t a particularly quick study when it came to the magical sciences.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, fine,” Ivy said, stuffing the drawing into her science folder. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was a year older than Cas, but she was a year ahead in science, so they’d been in the same class. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He would be the lone American in attendance this time, rubbing shoulders and debating the fine points of nuclear physics with the most glittering stars of European science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

First Charles told his father that he was worried he wouldn’t be able to support a family with his current plan of pursuing science. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked the class how many of us were taking computer science, and everybody but me and this one girl who didn’t speak English raised their hands. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

We were fighting forces that did not obey the laws of twentieth-century science. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came out of the science wing door and saw her mother parked by the curb, leaning back against the little tan Rabbit, waiting for her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bateson was acutely aware of the potential social and political impact of the newborn science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

As a freshman, he quickly worked his way into the most advanced science and math classes the school offered, stunning every teacher at every turn. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Rashid watched her go, went up to the second floor, and then headed to the bathroom near the science classrooms, at other end of the school. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The humid air pummeled us as soon as we left the air-conditioned science building, but I was still grateful for the excuse to escape the classroom. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The show featured in-depth conversations with prominent figures in politics, science, and the arts. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I find myself analyzing every sensation, with every experience passing down the realization that I'm just a really fancy robot Everything has its downside, and in science it's starting to show. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought a lot about Jamie as a researched jellyfish for my science report. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

So on Swift’s account the new science is both totally impractical and at the same time obsessed with practicality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Did she suggest mathematics club or science club?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But Charleton was one of the most active members of the Royal Society in its early years, and his idiolect, tamed and domesticated by Boyle and Sprat, has become the language of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Next they read out loud again, which was painful, and afterward they studied science, which was fun as far as she could understand it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

This was endured silently not only because of its family pedigree but also because Ernest so heartily endorsed the science underlying John’s experiments. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But later historians have naturally turned the phrase ‘Whig history’ back against Butterfield himself, accusing him of taking for granted the superiority of modern science over all that went before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

How then can ‘Experience’ be the right name for the new sciences? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We get to my science class and stop at the door. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Reports of women in science and other important professions occurred frequently, but there was also much discussion about the differences. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I’m going to be a detective when I grow up,” he’d say, “I need to know forensic science and TV detectives.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It is possible that we are on the verge of developing a proper applied science, but it has to be said that we don’t have one yet. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly I read books about science and maths. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The thinking is simple: science is very good at explaining what happens and predicting what is going to happen. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The steam engine was the product of seventeenth-century science, which had experimented with vacuums, and with air and steam pressure. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Tissue culture was the stuff of racism, creepy science fiction, Nazis, and snake oil. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She was only interested in Charles’s science because it was his. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thesis is misnamed, because, as it is usually formulated, Duhem did not hold it and Quine abandoned it, but it is the fundamental conceptual underpinning of much modern history and philosophy of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I guess so. I want to make sure science is held accountable in the future so others won’t have to go through what I’ve been through. But I’m grateful for these.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“I mean, we’ve got so many other things going on this month! That science fair project?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Thanks to science class and Ms. Cantor’s obsession with prepping, I know all about purified urine. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Developmental and reproductive biology were recognized and defined as sciences here, beginning with sea-urchin eggs and working up. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

How am I going to master the science of plumbing products when I can barely summon the concentration required to assemble a breakfast of peanut butter and toast? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a big science exam in a few days; she figured she might as well get some studying done. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When all our plates are clean, Emily says, “Siraj’s logic is solid about the science fair. Winning that would definitely give one an edge in the Excelsior contest.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Though some have taken this tiny probability as an argument for “creation science,” the only thing it clearly indicates is that monkeys seldom write great plays. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regiomontanus may have been one of the first, but he was not the last, to see in the mathematical sciences a new type of reliable knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the first physical science class of the new year, Mr. Ferris set Clarence on the front lab table and started him rocking. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Americans had planned to launch the first satellite into orbit as part of the International Geophysical Year, a cooperative global science project that ran from July 1957 to December 1958. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He had a point, and this is indeed a distinguishing feature of real science. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Economic man,” that great abstraction of economic science, is supposed to do whatever it takes, within certain limits, to maximize his economic advantage. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was science he was after—traces of science, anyway, like dust shaken from a tapestry of wonder. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In science class the next morning, Ms. Oliverio reminds us about the details for the upcoming science fair. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It is not surprising that the history of science is a problematic activity, because science itself constantly claims to escape from its own temporal specificity, its own artificiality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If the laws of science are unchanged by the combination of operations C and P, and also by the combination C, P, and T, they must also be unchanged under the operation T alone. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Getting animals used to the presence of humans is at the heart of the art and science of zookeeping. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet even as the themes of Counterfeit Paradise spread to the worlds of natural science and political activism, Meggers’s ideas exerted ever- diminishing influence in archaeology itself. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was mounted on a beautiful marble base and belonged in a museum—a science museum, not an art museum. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

If you concentrate on controversy, then it begins to look as if progress in science is arbitrary and unpredictable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If economics is a science primarily concerned with incentives, it is also—fortunately—a science with statistical tools to measure how people respond to those incentives. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re the one who said he was going to kill you in science.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

It turns out that the foreigners were so impressed with the performance, they decided to pay the entire cost of the school’s new science lab, even more than Principal Marcelo had hoped for. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a formal dinner once a professor of some science or other, wanting to make small talk, had pointed out a few insects gyrating above a candelabra. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“And is there no science? No physics?” he said. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Since the new science had yet to establish its claim to authority, that claim had to be asserted by appealing to reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

During her senior year at Swarthmore College, she took a course in political science, which sparked her interest in political activism. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He had trained in the natural sciences himself, and so was considered fit to act as the under-writers’ representative in the College. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Did he come upon the Archiv fur Elektrotechnik issue for December 19, 1928, in the Berkeley science stacks utterly by chance, or was the journal there because he himself had ordered the subscription? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Chemistry dean Gilbert Lewis was the undisputed head of the Berkeley science faculty when Lawrence arrived. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She picks a different lab partner in science, so I have to work with Caroline, who talks my ear off. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

This was a reasonable view, since they were the only tools needed for Copernican astronomy and for Galileo’s two new sciences, the science of projectiles and the science of load-bearing structures. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If he had done nothing else, laying all these foundations of analytical mathematics would have made Descartes a key figure in seventeenth-century science. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The classes were the same: language and communications; commerce and industry; science and technology; civil procedures and government. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Regardless, the culturists who called the meeting said, precision was essential in science, and researchers should know what cells they were using, and whether they were contaminated. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In science, Bernard notices my armband right off, and he asks me about it super loud. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

For the first generation, the new science was all in the mind; for the second, it was simply a language-game. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The best antidote to astrology in particular and to pseudoscience in general is, as Carl Sagan has written, real science, whose wonders are as amazing but have the added virtue of probably being real. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is their form, biochemistry, neurobiology, history, politics, science, technology, art, music, religion, philosophy? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a very competitive science magnet high school, and I worked very hard to get into it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go to the performance space next,” said Charlotte, leading the way out of the science room. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Ernest spun a grandiose vision of how science being done right there on the Berkeley campus would change human lives, not just through advances in physics but in the fields of health and medicine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Indeed, I shall argue that the new science would not have been possible without the construction of a new language with which to think, a language necessarily cobbled together out of available words and phrases. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t always terribly accurate–oxygen’s atomic weight is actually sixteen, not seven–but the principle was sound and formed the basis for all of modern chemistry and much of the rest of modern science. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Painting, cartography and ballistics do not strike us as cutting-edge sciences but, once, they were. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In school the science teacher had explained what superstition was, and then held the science textbook up for the class to see the true source of explanations. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t science at its subtlest, but it was generally effective. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Before every science class, Mrs. Turton always spent a few minutes telling us something about the world that she thought we might find interesting. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, he designs and builds robots. Amazing. I for one had no idea he was so into science.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The next day at school, Mr. Chang starts science class with a chapter on insects. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Those books are sixty years old and full of inaccurate science.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

His science experiments would nearly blow up the house because whatever he created, he’d leave it bubbling and boiling while he went to search for food, forgetting it completely. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shady was counting on Velma T.’s being more a woman of science than religion. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We recognized no loose ends, everything could be controlled by our science. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above all, he has no conception of a decisive transition in the natural sciences. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Sarah, can you get the phone numbers of Nia and Aaron out of my cell? And look through the recent missed calls for something from Manhattan; I have to call my science teacher.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Just as over-scrupulous historians refuse to use the words ‘revolution’, ‘science’ and ‘scientist’ when writing about the seventeenth century, they baulk at using Butterfield’s other word, ‘modern’, because it, too, seems to them inherently anachronistic. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is this assumption that there are new discoveries to be made which has transformed the world, for it has made modern science and technology possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Of course, any choice of a starting date for the history of science is arbitrary, and my own account is restricted geographically, as well as in the time span it covers. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking about the science fair,” I said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, once a set of suitable questions becomes agreed upon, these can be approached by the most systematic methods of applied science. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They get all excited, tell me stuff like how her cells helped make my blood pressure medicines and antidepression pills and how all this important stuff in science happen cause of her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She missed it in math class but got to witness it in language arts and twice in science. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But that night—in addition to the math, science, social studies, and ELA assignments he’d already nailed—he was going to do some research. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

When would sickness and death be overcome by science? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

If the full potential of the modern science of genetics was to be unleashed, Muller thought, it would be in Berlin. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My science homework was still spread out on the small desk by the window. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

On the continent, a much more deductive style of science was preferred, science conducted in the style of Descartes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I offer the Schieffer-Ardolino and Financial Times cases as just two examples of how the flattening of the world has happened faster and changed rules, roles, and relationships more quickly than social science can capture. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, in both cases, science was deliberately distorted to support state-sponsored mechanisms of “cleansing.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But he remembered from his science and technology studies at school that the search planes used heat-seeking devices which could identify body warmth and would home in on two humans huddled in shrubbery. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, all our theories of science are formulated on the assumption that space-time is smooth and nearly flat, so they break down at the big bang singularity, where the curvature of space-time is infinite. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as nineteenth-century human anatomy and physiology laid the foundation for twentieth-century medicine, the anatomy and physiology of genes would lay the foundation for a powerful new biological science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Entry to the inner redoubt requires one to pass through the mathematical sciences, with Tartaglia himself standing among them; within is Philosophy, accompanied by Aristotle and Plato. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He would later go on to do some of the world’s pioneering work in attention science, alongside the senior Mackworth. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My science teacher separated us and I was shaking uncontrollably. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Genuine science and mathematical precision are more intriguing than are the “facts” published in supermarket tabloids or a romantic innumeracy which fosters credulity, stunts skepticism, and dulls one to real imponderables. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His interest in science stirred, Oldenburg became a tutor in Oxford in 1656 and was very much a member of the circle from which the first Fellows of the Royal Society were drawn. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the words of Geoffrey Keynes, it ranks ‘among the most important books ever published in the history of science’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They use terms like “germline mosaicism,” “chromosome rearrangement,” or “delayed mutation” to explain why their science is not an exact science. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

If that were so, the reign of the cyclotron as sciences most powerful and effective atom smasher might be a brief one. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He said, “I suppose you could touch him and find out. Which raises an interesting point: How far are you willing to go in the name of science? This is something for you to ponder.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the planets sound ominous, like something you’d find in a science fiction movie set in some alien world—“alien world” as in world with aliens, not non-Earth world. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In geography the discovery game and the naming game went hand in hand; but in science the second was slower to get going than the first. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Above all, the music of this period was characterised - as were the contemporary sciences - by a powerful marriage of imagination and ambition. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When he went to talk to the other science teachers, I watched him interact with them. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Our schoolbooks are so old, my science textbook says there are still nine planets. They’re so old, I found my mother’s name written in one from when she was a kid.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

These peculiar and at first perplexing predictions of special relativity are true in the deepest sense that anything in science is true. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“School stuff, I guess. Math, a little science, some reading—depends on whatever books we were able to scrounge. It’s important to the boss that everyone gets the basics down.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The old philosophy is, by the end of the seventeenth century, scholasticism; modern science is the science of Descartes and Newton. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The next day in science, Mr. Levy gives us some free time at the end of class, and after rubbing my hands together really hard, I make my way up to his desk. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I intend to become a science teacher, not a preacher, but I don’t mind being called one. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro scholars ahead of us don’t seem inclined to say anything, and I cannot just let a man commit suicide, even if it is in the name of science. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The most important thing that science has taught us about our place in the Universe is that we are not special. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Anyway, some of us were too busy with more important things, like saving parents from a funk, to be thinking about the science fair. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Turning the little steel strip over and over between her fingers, she remembered an experiment she’d done in science class as a child. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Does, as Hall assumed, the new science have to be contemporary with the technology that derives from it? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It seems to me to be at odds with a number of passages in which Wittgenstein expresses a quite different view of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Without experiment, there is no way to choose among contending hypotheses, no way for science to advance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in fact, Gey’s history indicates that he wasn’t particularly interested in science for profit: in the early 1940s he’d turned down a request to create and run the first commercial cell-culture lab. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter that I was bad at science, not when I had Mom to help me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Richard remembered him clearly, his mottled complexion, how he called science “muck,” how he ate his porridge walking about in the dining hall because he said it was what gentlemen did. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But they saw their “clients” through the eyes of their profession, saw only what their “science” allowed them to see. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I was decent, but it wasn’t my best subject—science was. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

And I say, "I have a science question." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I write about how the world might end. Sometimes I write about the abductions...You know, for science. I forget the details otherwise.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But sometimes studying science uncovered other, scarier things. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Royal Society, after years of decline, in which it was short of funds and performing few experiments, was showing signs of a new enthusiasm for experimental science, but Papin did not benefit. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is administratively fashionable in Washington to attribute the delay of applied science in medicine to a lack of systematic planning. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The month following the science fair in Bluefield seemed to flash by. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Researchers tipped their hats to non-Western accomplishments in the sciences and arts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Then how did you come to be interested in science, sir?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

As Kuhn pointed out over and over again, one of the central purposes of an education in the sciences is to hide this basic truth from the next generation of scientists. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

How pallid by comparison are the pretensions of superstition and pseudoscience; how important it is for us to pursue and understand science, that characteristically human endeavor. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Officials and lawmakers now had to balance any spending on science against other burgeoning demands—for social programs, highways, school buildings, and other physical infrastructure. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Gene patents are the point of greatest concern in the debate over ownership of human biological materials, and how that ownership might interfere with science. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It might seem a marriage made in heaven, but there were still hurdles to be overcome before Kepler could achieve the breakthrough that made him a key figure in the history of science. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

And I did not cry—because it’s way embarrassing to cry in the middle of your science classroom. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Hobbes was not right about science: in science, as far as they are concerned, there is no right or wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My parents had already decided I would be a doctor because I did well in math and science at school, and these programs were to help me get on that path. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Again, there would be no such thing as science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The presumption has been, either that thinking comes naturally, or that the required intellectual tools for thinking about natural science had all been developed by the ancient Greeks. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

That was practically Mom’s favorite rule of science, and whenever she tried to work through a Big Question, she always started by making a list of knowns. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Even today there are scientists opposed to the popularization of science: the sacred knowledge is to be kept within the cult, unsullied by public understanding. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fix it before bed. It’s due tomorrow, and you have a science test on Friday.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is this very anomaly, on the other hand, which makes these texts the perfect place to embark on a new, post-Kuhnian history of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

An explanation for the decline of ancient science has been put forward by the historian of science Benjamin Farrington: The mercantile tradition, which led to Ionian science, also led to a slave economy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of his fame as a medical man, Gilbert made his mark on science in physics, through his thorough investigation of the nature of magnetism. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. You’re probably wondering about my science project for next year.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t seem to help to apply the inclusive term “biomedical” to our science, much as we would like to show that we are all one field of inquiry, share and share alike. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many a night, I drifted off to sleep, filled with wonder at how the two-edged-sword teachings so hurt, confused, concerned, and upset the government full of men trained highly in all of the modem sciences. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Did you change your mind about the science fair?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

TJ shrugged, tossing his science book onto the floor of the metal closet, the smell of feet wafting up from it like a cloud of dust, unsettled. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It does not serve the Bantu to learn history and science because he is primitive,” the government said. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It also provided a key building block in one of the most crucial, emerging principles of the science of attention: There is a tension going on inside the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her parents laughed, but Naheed could tell they were pleased, and science became her favorite subject. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The science building wasn’t as majestic as the ones in the quads. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

In the history of science literature it is generally taken for granted that Wittgenstein was a relativist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His mother said she couldn’t imagine how Roy had got bitten by a dog while he was working on a science project. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kinda weird that he would hang over the ocean, tagging sharks in the name of science, but he wouldn’t call a biologist to dissect the one he caught, right? The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I see the compound, shaped like the picture of a neuron I once saw in my science textbook, and the fence that surrounds it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Sweeney fought without style, without science, with nothing but enthusiasm for the fight itself: huge, barreling roundhouse blows that missed as often as they connected. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

"You have a Tuesday night at nine forty-two question about science?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

According to this theory, there are either many different universes or many different regions of a single universe, each with its own initial configuration and, perhaps, with its own set of laws of science. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said the science was a little more complicated than that. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Which, once again, proves my point about the science fair,” says Siraj. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“We did solar ovens in science last week.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But if he were to marry one of the Horner girls, or anyone else, he could see the obligations ahead, whereas if he remained single, he would be freer to pursue his science. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such were the demands of fund-raising even in the era of small science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His dad was crazy about science, and it seemed as if he wanted to pour everything in his brain right into Gregor’s head. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The motion had to do with what was going on inside Reggie’s mind, and it raised fascinating questions about the collision of technology, science, and law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Not only that, I didn’t want to take any more math and science classes. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

People may be able to take solace from it, but it’s clear that the statement is not falsifiable and hence, as the English philosopher Karl Popper has insisted, not part of science. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That don’t make no sense. And why you bringin’ up science for?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Martin had been coming over to gorge on Didu's Indian food or study for science tests for years without making me tingle. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fact: Every great scientist knows that an unproven theory isn’t exactly science, but the idea that Sir Fig Newton would live a long, healthy life with the silent cat killer was about to come true. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The huge movie theaters, the museums, the concerts, the science exhibits. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Cosmic strings may sound like pure science fiction but there are reasons to believe they could have formed in the early universe as a result of symmetry-breaking of the kind discussed in Chapter 5. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the incubator. That big black thing is the chalkboard. These are the desks. These are chairs. Those are the Bunsen burners. This is a gross science poster. This is chalk. This is the eraser.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps science was stillborn in Indian, Mayan and Aztec civilizations for the same reason it declined in Ionia, the pervasiveness of the slave economy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifth is computer science—which isn’t science at all. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

If science is largely culturally determined, then the now familiar conclusion follows: its procedures and conclusions will reflect a purely local consensus. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Remember: there are no losers in #science #life. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then Terryl began to touch on the science to back up the dangers of texting and talking while driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

These scholars present science as being about rhetoric, persuasion and authority because the symmetry principle obliges them to assume that that is all it can be about. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The 1576 edition of the Prognostication is a little puzzle in which we find the whole problem of the early modern history of science in miniature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is natural to describe key events in terms of the work of individuals who made a mark in science—Copernicus, Vesalius, Darwin, Wallace and the rest. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was so beautiful and scary, I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Our understanding of the word ‘modern’, when talking about science, thus still corresponds to theirs, and their use of the term ‘the modern’ is their way of acknowledging what we call the Scientific Revolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The only thing I didn’t like about our science unit was that we had to have partners. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

It was the first significant work in the physical sciences to be produced in England. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

His first significant contribution to science concerned the springiness, or compressibility, of air, and involved the most famous experiment of his illustrious career. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even a phonograph record that she says contains her grandfather’s voice, lessons in science for children. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The injection of disease-causing organisms into unaware human subjects has occurred before in American medical science,” the article explained. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But once science and technology got together, progress really took off. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She didn’t read or write much, and she hadn’t studied science in school. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Fascinated by science, he dreamed of being an electrical engineer, but he couldn’t see how he could pay for the training. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

One of his contemporaries at Oxford, a man with a keen interest in science, was Christopher Wren, three years older than Hooke and another product of Westminster School. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then he remembered when all three of them were together at last year’s science fair. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Thus what Koyré took to be the key concept that made possible the new science, the concept of inertia, was, he held, constructed by Galileo thinking about everyday experience, by a mere thought experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I kept everything we said in a notebook that I’d been using for science class. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She talked with James about history and science, listening with all her brain, so her questions would show that she was really interested. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is when I would’ve been convincing my parents I wasn’t meant to study the sciences. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Everybody said she liked to explode stuff for science experiments. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It transforms science from knowledge of the truth, regarded as indisputable, into a form of progressive knowledge in which established truths may always be disputed and in which an ultimate truth is never attained. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If science does not produce knowledge in that sense, they conclude, it cannot be producing knowledge at all. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Ecology was a sober, industrious science here long ago, decades before the rest of us discovered the term. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was mediocre in English, social studies, French, and computer science, and well below average in math and science. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“We know not why with certainty, but I have suspicions. Your father was a man of science, was he not?” asked Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cold air radiated from a towering indoor fountain that sprayed water over coiled copper tubing, trickling down by some new science to form blocks of ice at its base. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Spencer, the boy who sits next to me in science, panics. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

By outlining the cyclotron’s vast potential for advancing the peacetime goals of basic science, Ernest convinced Fosdick that the machine just might serve as a beneficent scientific counterbalance to Hiroshima. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I felt a science report coming on titled Electricity, Our Helpful Friend. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the Doctorita is gathering a bag of food for the trip, I take the key to the science lab off her key chain. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have been studying the origins of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Realizing that this was not the moment for science, he slowly retreated, asking Griffith to tell him again the pairs produced by his calculations. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

At the age of twelve, gray bearded and teetering, Melina was a wonder of science. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

After silent reading period, she went to art and music, and I went to gym and science. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Seldom–perhaps never–has science been driven forward more swiftly and successfully by animosity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But in the meantime two scientists had developed a theory about HeLa that sounded far more like science fiction than anything Rifkin had come up with: HeLa, they said, was no longer human. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In my view, explaining science in terms of common sense is simply to go round in a circle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Laudan’s arguments tell against Putnam’s claim that science gets at the truth, not against the claim that what marks science out is that it is reliable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On August 16, he appeared before his examiners to be tested in the natural sciences. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was the old Jansenist antiscience creed that was building up in him, but for whatever the reason, Pascal’s newfound devotion led him to abandon mathematics and science altogether. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

During those two decades remarkable discoveries were made that changed the entire science of medicine. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, his Pietism embraced the relationship between God and science. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

To which he replied what many Americans of his generation would have: “It’s science, Ma.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There, he annoyed his advisors by majoring in English despite his obvious brilliance in math and science. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It may be hard to believe, but proponents of the strong programme have acquired a dominant position within the history of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Considering the frequency with which they turn up at seminal events in eighteenth-century science, remarkably little is known about either man. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Interesting,” Hecate said, as if Hazel were an unexpected result in a science experiment. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was the whole reason why he wanted to win first place again in the science fair. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There were volumes of Afrocentric history like the ones that are sold on the sidewalk in downtown Brooklyn, social science primers, and an academic survey of perceptions of race over the years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’ll no longer have extra help for science but instead will be required to attend the debate club I’m running in the library during that time. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I was worried when the office called my name to get picked up during science, and when I didn’t see Charlie in the car, I felt even worse. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

For Worsley, navigating had ceased to be a science and had turned into a kind of sorcery. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“I graduated from this high school,” she said, “and all I ever heard was football, football, football. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if science was another way to get in this trophy case?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But then, much later, another rather curious idea arose, an assault by mysticism and superstition into what had been largely an empirical science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or a group of science people doing research about plankton or the chemicals found in floating seaweed, all these waterproof monitors beeping and flashing next to ’em on deck. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“What do you think? It’s your science experiment. Tell me your hypothesis.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I did well in my classes, especially in math and science, which confounded some of the other kids, since my English was still raw. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Prediction in history, as in other historical sciences, is most feasible on large spatial scales and over long times, when the unique features of millions of small-scale brief events become averaged out. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t take any other classes: no science, no math, no literature. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The same article called the new science plate tectonics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The girl who’s my lab partner in science has an open seat next to her. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

It’s not just one memory; it’s a million, twisting and twirling and wrapping together into something that looks like the pictures of galaxies in my science book. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Already, by luck, we have seen the assembly of particles of exchanged thought into today’s structures of art and science. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Galileo, of course, all sorts of new languages have been invented with which to do science, including algebra, calculus and probability theory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“About what? About Freud? The one time I mentioned a Freudian theory in class, all I got out of Appleman was that dogmatic psychoanalysis was related to psychology as magic was related to science. ‘ The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I kept looking at the clock all through science class. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes there are real, live, enduring controversies in science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Instead, the old Ionians represent a different and largely contradictory tradition, one in much better accord with modern science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

While string theory might be mathematically consistent, and even beautiful, it is not yet science. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Who knew there were schools with computer and science labs? Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

There was more to Rad Lab science than the identification of new radioisotopes, due in part to the recruitment of world-class physicists such as McMillan and Alvarez. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Thus from 1660 on ‘experimental philosophy’ became a widely used label for a science relying on experiments; no one wrote of an ‘experiential philosophy’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So I'm going to spend today working on some mad science. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet that was the wrong impression to take from Alfred Loomis’s devotion to science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a headache. And I have my science fair research to do. And I need to do some sit-ups. You know, keep the body fit.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Think of soccer balls, science kits, chemistry sets, racetracks, and model trains. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In 2008, she obtained her PhD. and joined United States Robots as a “Robopsychologist,” becoming the first great practitioner of a new science. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

On this view astrology was once a science, and so of course was theology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Switzer, the science guy, entered the gym, he was pretty hard to miss. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We have far surpassed the science known to the ancient world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ajarry made a science of her own black body and accumulated observations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Milo, also my science teacher, gave me an A+ on the report, even though I had made several grammatical mistakes in it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Philology is related to the science of etymology, dealing in root words. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

That wasn’t the science we learned in the sixth grade, but I wasn’t going to contradict my great-grandmother, especially if Fern would begin to eat. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Martin and I have only two things in common: science and math. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was still fishing and wondering if I could pull my liver up, or my kidney, or some organ we had studied in science when suddenly Mrs. Maxy swooped down on me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dude, that sounds way too hard. You know I suck at science.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It is, I maintain, incompatible with any grasp of the achievements of modern science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I talk about how much I love science, how it opened my eyes to the world around me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What we heard from our daughter made it sound like there was a science fiction movie unfolding at the school.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Their science began properly in 1786 with the discovery of the similarity of Sanskrit to Greek and Latin, by William Jones. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From computer science he made his way to honors calculus, where a black balloon from the Friday pep rally floated casually from his knapsack. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s time to go back to the sixteenth century and pick up the threads of the developments in astronomy and the mechanical sciences which followed on from the work of Copernicus. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was an extra-credit project, so I wasn’t going to flunk science if she didn’t like the field guide. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Tim made me lose the science fair and the Excelsior Award! Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Though the Casimir force—a mysterious, phantom force exerted by nothing at all—seems like science fiction, it exists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Astronomy is a science—the study of the universe as it is. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stuyvesant High School was ideally suited to the student interested in science or math. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A boy might be praised for his scholarship, and the audience reminded of his special abilities in science. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“And she cares about me. Like in fourth grade when she arranged for me to work with Conner on our science fair project, because she knew I was interested in the same thing he was.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Many of them tutored kids in math and science, something that Mary had done since graduating from college. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

These strong passions have somewhat frayed the tolerance for ambiguity that is essential to science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the trombone right next to the bedroom door so I wouldn’t forget it again on my way to school tomorrow, and I packed my science paper and gym shorts inside my backpack. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The science explains why, for all the growth in our other gadgets, television remains the single most dominant form of media. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Others had to do with science and grammar. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

One is that music followed its own timetable, a timetable that does not fit neatly with developments in art, architecture, design, philosophy and science. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We moved from cool math right into wicked science. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

This interesting riddle is still quite a challenge to modern science in the twentieth century. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He had a disease that was a science name. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

To make a lesson integrated, it is necessary to include social science or history goals and objectives as well as musical information, goals and objectives. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Despite Kurie’s doubts, signs already had emerged that tinkering was yielding to serious science in the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then, in one of the most widely read science journals in the world, she corrected her error: “Helen Lane, it seems, never lived. But Henrietta Lacks did, long protected by the pseudonym Helen Lane.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Belief comes from a different place than science. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consequently two different scientific communities will always produce two radically different bodies of scientific fact and theory, and science is not a cross-cultural form of knowledge but a local consensus, specific to a particular community. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Katherine, in fact, thought science—and space—was the ideal place for talented people of any background. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

What makes it science is not that it provides an explanation but that it provides reliable predictions in the form of a mathematical model. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"Stars everywhere. It was like being at the science center or something," I explained. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

For now, Dr. Gazzaley is talking a bit about how attention science unfolded, and the leading researchers upon which modern work is built. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

However, it would be quite wrong to think of the new science as primarily an amateur—that is, unpaid—activity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This chapter is about the birth of the modern in two senses: first, there is the emergence of a new sense of the word ‘modern’ in the 1660s to refer to post-Galilean science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is at this point that most stories of Galileo’s contribution to science begin. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Indeed, it has been an outstandingly successful theory and underlies nearly all of modern science and technology. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The impact that would have on science is inconceivable,” he said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That’s how long it was going to take to get enough measurements for his science experiment. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

These works on optics were about ‘perspective’, a term which meant ‘the science of sight’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you have an old real science teacher who retires or quits and leaves you without a replacement. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Less controversial is the contention that there are no clear-cut, easy algorithms that allow us to distinguish science from pseudoscience in all cases. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You gave my science project pizzazz. It needed pizzazz.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Right before science class began, I went up to Theresa and handed her six pages of research. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

No adult has ever winked at me, other than the science teacher in elementary school who had the neurological condition. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was the application of attention science to driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We could have some wicked cool workshops — writing, film, science, music, consciousness-raising. “ Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

His dream mom and father were happy during the science fair but not this happy. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The only areas of physical science into which quantum mechanics has not yet been properly incorporated are gravity and the large-scale structure of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the weekends when he was allowed to leave his boarding school, he would visit the three Mora sisters in their old mill to study various occult sciences. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love science, and I love nothing more than asking question upon question to figure out the way things work. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When boxing was illegal in California, you could find an abundance of the sweet science in Tijuana. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kuhn tried to maintain both these views, despite the tension between them, by distinguishing revolutionary science from normal science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I also forgot what I learned in science class: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werner is summoned to the office of the technical sciences professor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A school bus is a science lab—hot dogs and baloney are the same meat. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The owner of Microbiological Associates —a military man named Samuel Reader—knew nothing about science, but his business partner, Monroe Vincent, was a researcher who understood the potential market for cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And at this point Wittgensteinian history of science places itself directly at odds with Galileo’s own account of what he is actually doing, and history of science is in a direct conflict with science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

From our modern perspective, it is easy to dismiss the ancients’ qualms about the utility of science. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

One of Merton’s fundamental claims about science is that scientific knowledge is public knowledge—knowledge that has been made available for others to question, test and dispute. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When he points the camera in my direction, I hide behind a science textbook. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It might also provide the kind of secondary, spin-off items of science that we like to see in federally supported research. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cyclotron was about to secure an international reputation as an indispensable tool of nuclear science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Nowhere does he acknowledge that there was such a thing as ‘natural science’; in the text he considers only natural philosophy and mathematics, not ‘physiology’, ‘physics’, etc. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This transition—from explanation to manipulation—is precisely what makes the field of genetics resonate far beyond the realms of science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But, as Robert K. Merton kept pointing out, science isn’t only about individual success. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He left an unfinished reply to Wotton when he died in 1699—missing was the discussion of science which needed to be the crux of his argument. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be able to eat. Don’t worry. And in the meantime, think of this as a science experiment. So it’s two of your most favorite things, Albert.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It’s even sad when it’s a slimy gray worm that gave its life for science. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Consequently, the Greeks and the Romans were incapable of formulating the idea of laws of nature, and without them they could not develop modern science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the end, science was going to dictate the course of the NDRC’s program, and the science of the atomic nucleus was on Lawrence’s side. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

With his experience in chemistry, Gold was able to follow the basic science. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence would breach that wall and clear away the mist, marking at that same moment the transition to Big Science from small science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, the desktop appeared with icons for math, science, French—every subject—ready for access. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Someday science will solve that. But for now, get up off the floor,” she ordered. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The problem with the relativists is that they explain bad science and good science, phrenology and nuclear physics, in exactly the same way—advocates of ‘the strong programme’ explicitly insist on this equivalence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When me and August were still friends, I was doing okay in science because August sat next to me and always let me copy his notes. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Your scrutiny into the most obscure sciences has attracted the notice of the world. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Where his predecessors had been doing mathematics or philosophy, Galileo was doing what we call science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clavius’s argument here is identical with that of modern realists who claim that science must approximate to the truth, otherwise it would not be able to make successful predictions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

No one should be surprised if histories and philosophies of science which start from Wittgenstein seem to miss the very thing that science is all about. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Clerval had never sympathised in my tastes for natural science; and his literary pursuits differed wholly from those which had occupied me. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn't have a strong science background and didn't know much about chemicals. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The driver lugs Ainsley’s science project up the steps for her. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Corporal Craigie was full of urgency and outrage, demanding which of us knew the science of tying a bloody tourniquet, ilk of ye—by God, the man was dying while we gaped. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Just recently, I was sitting in my science class, when I heard the girl sitting next to me making rude comments about my bad eyesight. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Supersonic aircraft and missiles were determining the course of the Cold War, but so too would “science textbooks and racial relations.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And then I saw our science teacher, Ms. Solomon, come out. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The science of medicine at the end of the eighteenth century still relied a great deal on ancient myths and folk remedies. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The researchers realized that the machines people were building—those mechanized tools of productivity, war, and science—were so powerful that they were moving faster than people could keep up. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

With English out of the way, he was taking government and the electives of sociology, computer math, photography, and food science. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For most of my classmates it meant choosing a branch of science that they somehow knew about and would pursue. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

This led to an invitation from the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolph II, a man much more interested in science and art than he was in politics. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, I would argue that in science one step back always results in two steps forward and there are no clear cases where the loss outweighs the gain. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, kiddo. Some of the teachers have been grumbling about Dr. Throckmorton’s decision to disqualify your science fair victory.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

In 1845, as part of his monastic education, Mendel attended classes in theology, history, and natural sciences at Brno’s Theological College. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

None of them was a scientist, because science, as we understand the term, did not yet exist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Degree should be in engineering, biological science, physical science, or math. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

This is what comes next in the study of the science of attention, the latest wave. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“But do you really think,” he said, concerned, “that one can call psychology a science?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He opened up his briefcase and showed me all the books within, most of them on general science, but one of them a novel titled Tropic of Cancer. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dad likes to give me old-time science fiction. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Delilah rushes to the only bookstore in the city that miraculously carries Howie Maldonado’s science fiction novel, The Lost Twin of Bone Bay. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He slowly slipped the pages into his science notebook and waited for the rest of the kids to rush out to lunch. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy, of science, of mathematics, and of religion. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Thirteen students in my class made fallout- shelter models for their science project, which shows it was not just me worried about it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mom drives David to school so he can hand in some giant science project on a trifold display. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

And since the progress of science has by no means come to a halt, some of you may yet be involved in the next step in the story. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Everything was set for one of the most important experiments in the history of science. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have remained heavily involved in computing science, investigating and maintaining complex networks and studying everything from memes to artificial intelligence. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of my comrades on these expeditions was a serious young science scholar whom I had met on the soccer field. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Admiral shook hands with them and Mrs. Popper, and thanked them for having helped to train the extraordinary penguins that were to be a real contribution to science. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

And so his texts played a decisive role in legitimizing the new post-Kuhnian history of science because they were wrongly read as endorsing a thoroughgoing relativism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The academic hub of “race science” was the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics—a mere stone’s throw away from Muller’s new lab in Berlin. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My performance was above average in all subjects, but I excelled in languages and the sciences. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In showing that many alchemical recipes can indeed be performed in a modern laboratory, these scholars have rendered apparently incomprehensible texts meaningful and reinstated alchemy as a laboratory science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I had answered “lawyer” for a while and, when I liked my science teacher, Mr. Marcus, I had answered “scientist.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A central concern of the history of ideas, of which the history of science forms part, has to be linguistic change. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But I’m not daydreaming in science class; I’m playing basketball. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The simple truth is that replication of the Torricellian experiment was unproblematic; it follows that the sociologists of science are wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But he well knows the science, from his own study, and because his father was smack in the middle of it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Their value for science comes from being part of a larger collection. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I have no idea. I can’t read it. But a lot of her jobs are junky self-help books that she complains about. She’s more of a science fiction fan.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

My thoughts raced back to March, after losing the science fair. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I have a science test this week that I’ve been studying for a lot. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t trust anybody—not when the future of library science was at stake. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The next week at school, Maestra Eva announces that some important visitors—foreigners—will be coming, and they’re considering making a big donation to fund the construction of a science lab at the school. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the unabashedly chauvinistic Time, the youthful Professor Lawrence’s career symbolized the emergence of American science as the lodestar of international research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“The world is my country,” he said, “science my religion.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since then it has indeed been uninterrupted and continuous; as an account of modern science, the preface is spot on. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The laws of science that govern the behavior of matter under all normal situations are unchanged under the combination of the two operations C and P on their own. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernest Rutherford was one of science’s Great Men, a towering figure who drove developments in his era rather than riding in the wakes of others. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It should be said that regression analysis is more art than science. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Atsbani, the computer science teacher, had been so extra about the whole situation. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Like all great communicators, he loved language: he wrote a whole book about the word ‘serendipity’, another about the phrase ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’, and he co-edited a volume of social science quotations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If science explains things, this is not science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Jessie had spun around, her backpack full of thick science books smacking Jefferson in the ribs, and walked away. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Even if Siraj was right, that I was “in the lead” because I won the science fair, that lead has vanished. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Here Hobbes distinguishes between two types of knowledge: science, which is, as Hume would later say, about the relationship between ideas; and what he calls prudence, which is about facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“If you ask me, that program doesn’t work one bit,” Mr. Mac, the science teacher, says. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

UC Berkeley’s medical school would not get over its disdain for John’s studies for years, until the situation was finessed by the creation of a separate laboratory for radiation science in 1942. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Historians have long debated the extent to which science contributed to the Industrial Revolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Under such conditions all the laws of science, and therefore all ability to predict the future, would break down. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

An earthquake is a geological event that can be explained by science, I wanted to tell them. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My favorite bit of overheard gossip came from a freshman kid outside the science lab: “I heard he’s, like, a prince from Dubai or something.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Thomas Kuhn thought that science and technology were antithetical to each other, at least until the 1870s. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is precisely this quality that makes facts the raw material of science, for science, too, is a peculiar amalgam of the real and the cultural. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Both were about her mother’s cells, and neither was science fiction. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Moreover, he could not refrain from subsequently telling all who would listen how his clever new idea might set science ahead. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“I was only doing a science project,” said Tom. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nikhil registers for his first four classes: Intro to the History of Art, Medieval History, a semester of Spanish, Astronomy to fulfill his hard science requirement. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Especially in sticky situations like this, Maurice thought that a few minutes without science was the way to proceed. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“How else do you explain why your science teacher knew her real name when everyone else called her Helen Lane?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He would be wondering where she was, why she hadn’t met him at the science wing as usual so they could walk together. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After my science report, kids started coughing “Medusa” into their hands every time I passed in the hallway. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You’re welcome. So, now that the science fair is finally over, you want to come to my house this weekend? Mom bought me a new trick.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Little wonder, then, that this period is sometimes called the Scientific Revolution - although advances in science would also offer the artistic community a series of technological breakthroughs. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I get the feeling his research is less about science and more about the mayor’s impending run for Senate. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He shook her hand and said that Henrietta had made an important contribution to science. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Like Clavius, we test our knowledge by doing things with it, which is the fundamental difference between our knowledge and most of the sciences of Montaigne’s day. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is generally accepted that the biologic sciences are absolutely splendid. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed Mrs. Dent had not studied that science: though, as she said, she liked flowers, “especially wild ones;” Miss Ingram had, and she ran over its vocabulary with an air. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The academic courses—math, science, law—at school became less demanding for her group. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Strauss fired back furiously that his science advisors, Professors Lawrence and Teller, thought the assumptions underlying Rabi’s findings baseless. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

By similar logic, the interlocking of just a few crucial concepts relaunched the science of genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m not saying you can’t care. I just don’t want a repeat of my science project in eighth grade.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The debate over Lawrence’s future at Berkeley climaxed at an acrimonious faculty conclave pitting the hard sciences, represented by Birge and Lewis, against the humanities and social sciences departments. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Kojo was a science geek who spent a lot of time streaming detective shows. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not like I’m doing a magic trick or a dangerous science experiment. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Chemistry was, generally speaking, a science for businesspeople, for those who worked with coal and potash and dyes, and not gentlemen, who tended to be drawn to geology, natural history, and physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Because I had liked the science teacher in junior high, I thought the emphasis on science would be all right. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It is in the abrupt, unaccountable aggregation of random notions, intuitions, known in science as good ideas, that the high points are made. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fundamental postulate of the theory of relativity, as it was called, was that the laws of science should be the same for all freely moving observers, no matter what their speed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time I visited, we’d walk the Baltimore Harbor, ride boats, read science books together, and talk about her mother’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m in charge of helping students prepare for the county science fair,” Miss Riley said to us over the noise of the throng. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

China and India and Mesoamerica would, I think, have tumbled to science too, if only they had been given a little more time. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Bunderson had raised some serious doubt, Terryl felt the core science was so powerful as to overwhelm any doubts. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

That fault could properly be laid to Ernest Lawrence, who was still learning how to balance engineering and hard science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the decades to come, this revolutionary science would extend its domain from simple organisms to complex ones. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I walk next to Allys as we make our way to a creek bed for our outdoor science and ethics session. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Perhaps you’re wondering why the fact that trees talk wasn’t covered in science class, during those Mother Nature Is Our Friend lessons. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

No science fiction or fantasy is going to help me. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

If I wanted to pass seventh-grade science, I was going to have to speak out loud. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Today, Naheed had taken her science book with her so she would be on time. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

In 1896 he gave up his German citizenship to avoid military conscription and entered the Zurich Polytechnic Institute on a four-year course designed to churn out high school science teachers. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Matt understood something of the process from his science classes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s simple reading comprehension. Read the paragraph and summarize, in a couple of sentences, what it was about. That’s it. It’s not rocket science.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

At seventeen she took county board examinations, which covered all the arts and sciences, and at eighteen she was teaching school at Peach Tree. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some have argued for continuity—that modern science derives from medieval science, or indeed from Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Most of the important people of the day came to show their respects to the great man of science. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elellenistic advances in science and technology are, of course, the substance of this book. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The most mysterious aspect of difficult science is the way it is done. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

De Magnete had a direct influence on Galileo, who was inspired by the book to carry out his own investigations of magnetism, and who described Gilbert as the founder of the experimental method of science. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

For Aristotle, the ideal science consisted of a chain of logical deductions from incontestable premises. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Five fundamental changes thus interacted and interlocked in the course of the seventeenth century to produce modern science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Math first thing in the morning, then science and gym, lunch and health, and finally, reading, language arts, and social studies in Mr. Larson's room. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He stands up like he’s been waiting his whole life for the opportunity to address the combined social studies and science classes. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Now you shall speak. Tell us two dry men of science what you see with those so bright eyes.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Today, when the Lacks brothers talk about Henrietta, they focus on the importance of her contribution to science. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then I told the policeman how Mr. Vandermeer was teaching his rats to play basketball with a teeny ball for a science experiment. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But the complexity of nuclear physics was rapidly outstripping the capabilities of the laboratory apparatus of small science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This is a singularity, a concept that became very important later in the history of science—but at this early stage, mathematicians knew little more than the artists about the properties of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Today was Tuesday and it was B week, which meant a double period of science. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The book’s subject matter is history, but the approach is that of science—in particular, that of historical sciences such as evolutionary biology and geology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His vocabulary is exemplary: he uses Virtuosi to mean scientists and ‘Science’ to mean, well, science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Both sets of ideas passed into the public imagination through Sunday supplements and science fiction. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, too, science itself is an invention, but Newton did not invent gravity, he discovered its law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Torricellian barometer was the first experimental apparatus around which a normal science developed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Monday during science a note from the office gets delivered to me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing in my pockets but lint and some rubber bands that we were using during science. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Across the country, the United States debated the quality of its schools, concerned with how American students matched up to the Soviets in math and the sciences. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The loyalty oath affair initiated a subtle transformation in the Rad Lab’s reputation as a haven for pure science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“While Chess gets the poster board he needs for his science project and Emma gets the next book she wants in that series she’s reading. Harry Potter, wasn’t it?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

What makes the strong programme strong is the conviction that the content of science, and not just the ways in which science is organized, or the values and aspirations of scientists, can be explained sociologically. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When you study the science of philology, you learn the laws governing how a consonant can lose its shape, but it keeps its identity from language to language.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As time goes by, the system will evolve according to the laws of science and its state will change. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The second youngest liked the sciences, so I made sure there was always an abundance of living things to study.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One could use the laws of science to evolve the universe back in time to determine its configuration at earlier times. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miig couldn’t explain the science of it, but ever since the North started melting there were more rains. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But I don’t need science to figure out why I don’t remember the attack. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He tended to do well in math, science, and English, but even that record was spotty— he once got an F in a Shakespeare course. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled out the science report, laser-printed in four colors, with a clear plastic binder. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This, it seems to me, is to mistake effect for cause, to get the whole story of the new science upside down and back to front. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For five days, girls in fourth grade through seventh grade from all over Brevard County learned all kinds of neat stuff about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

As if his stupid science experiment had anything to do with real life. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He took a minute to process the science. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I resolved to dive into a frenzy of specimen collecting, science, schoolwork—work of any kind—to make the time go faster. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Is this connected to that ‘science project’ you were supposedly working on this afternoon?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Recognizing both science’s limitations and its strengths requires a peculiar mixture of scepticism and confidence; relativists overdo the scepticism and realists overdo the confidence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Consequently, we need to think of science as being the result of an evolutionary process where good science has had, over the last five centuries, a better prospect of survival than bad science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was not alone in assuming that the progress of science destroyed superstitious beliefs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Polycrates was a generous patron of the arts, sciences and engineering. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if science and the experimental method and the dignity of crafts and mechanical arts had been vigorously pursued 2,000 years before the Industrial Revolution? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the death of Paul V at first seemed like good news for science. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps nothing better typifies the strange and often accidental nature of chemical science in its early days than a discovery made by a German named Hennig Brand in 1675. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I took notes on some of them, writing down the most important facts, then folded those pages into the back of my science notebook. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But, if one looks closely, it is apparent that the new science was about one thing more than anything else, and that is the triumph of experience over philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He says the Khmer Rouge government views science, technology, and anything mechanical as evil and therefore must be destroyed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Twig and I were working on the egg drop project,” I said, thinking maybe, when it came to science, she might pay attention. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Just go back to Phoenix. I need to focus on my science project.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Even pieces of the cyclotron diverted from the refuse bin were advancing science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“My parents gave me a bunch of science books over the break. Plus a Snap Circuits kit.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Thales brought back from Babylon and Egypt the seeds of the new sciences of astronomy and geometry, sciences that would sprout and grow in the fertile soil of Ionia. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered from one science class or another something about Newton, but I couldn’t put my finger on his laws. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ziman, in a recent Nature essay, points out, “the invention of a mechanism for the systematic publication of fragments of scientific work may well have been the key event in the history of modern science.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is an old uranium mine near here. Church Rock Mine,” Nathan said, recalling his research for his science project. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Beet sugar was a triumph of reason, of science, over the gifts of nature. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Discovery is not in itself a scientific idea but rather an idea that is foundational for science: we might call it a metascientific idea. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He picks on the art club, but I can’t really take that personally, because he also picks on the science fair kids and the mathletes. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“We have a couple of great science electives at Beecher,” he said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“She loves science, especially everything to do with space. She’s a huge Star Trek fan and wants to be a pilot someday, just like her uncle.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Like Tina, a lot of them go into the field of science.’” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Canadians take a broader view, and some of the Europeans have gone farthest of all to develop the science of “forest hygiene” to an amazing extent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you don’t have enough money to hire a real science teacher. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Right about now, Ms. Rubin was probably going over the results of yesterday’s quiz in science class. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The formidable advance of science and technology in Wagner’s time, instead of making people confident and liberated, made them fearful and vulnerable, ripe for exploitation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That science of ignoring is a key part of the attention conversation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

For Glanvill, and others like him, the new science was intended to serve as a bulwark against materialism and atheism; being modern and believing in witchcraft went hand in hand. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The success of the Torricellian barometer created an audience for the new science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Lives “unworthy of living” were apparently of extreme worth for the advancement of science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

With HeLa, a group of scientists in Colorado succeeded, and soon the world of science had not only HeLa but also its hundreds, then thousands, of clones. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As I shook my head, Julian said: “Are you talking about the baby chicks in science? Those get donated to a farm at the end of every school year.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Hooke and Newton were both, as far as their science is concerned, entirely seventeenth-century figures, though they did both live into the new century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

These were intellectual transformations of fundamental importance, yet historians of science barely discuss them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The idea that accurate figures could make a fundamental difference started with double-entry bookkeeping in the thirteenth century; it then spread to the sciences, and outwards from both accountancy and science to government. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His visit, however, bore no relation to science. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, Schaffer’s claims were accepted as confirming a by-then-well-established theory of how science works—that it works not through evidence, but through power and persuasion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She’d thought of a good one: Where the wet things are between art and science, encrypted in her and James’s secret language to make it a little more difficult. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was a dizzying experience, as though time had sped forward in a science fiction novel, to suddenly hug one’s fully grown child. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figure they don’t want to hear about the C he got on his science test or how he was grounded for the past two weeks for talking back. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And that was how our whole seventh-grade science class ended up on the playground behind the school at the end of day on a Monday afternoon. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“That was the most complicated eighth-grade science exhibit on soil in the history of the world.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Charles Darwin left an unparalleled legacy to science. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their science and technology would be far beyond ours. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The development of science on Earth was spurred fundamentally by observations of the regularities of the stars and planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And tell me, Perseus Jackson”—I flinched when he said my real name, which I never told anybody—“what will people think of your ‘science’ two thousand years from now?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As these medieval thinkers imported the philosophy and science of the ancients, they inherited the ancient prejudices: a fear of the infinite and a horror of the void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I can't help but notice the similarity between the two men: they were both involved in wars where science played a big part in the outcome. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He’s still convinced that I’m going to win the Excelsior because I won the science fair. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

In the end, early modern science defeated two of the most difficult practical problems it had set itself: the calculation of the path of projectiles under real-life conditions, and the measurement of longitude. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her father had insisted that she earn a teaching certificate as a backup plan for her pursuit of a career in the sciences. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

If this cancer was going to kill him, he wanted it to help advance science in the process. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In that case, he was born exactly 100 years after the publication of De Revolutionibus, which highlights how quickly science became established once it became part of the Renaissance. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

In this seminal case on texting and driving, the hearing examined how decades’ worth of attention science might be applied to the law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

How can the old and the new, the past and the future, rational science and superstition, live side by side here without any sign of discomfort? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But if there had been any paleontologists living 67 million years ago, they could not have predicted the dinosaurs’ imminent demise, because asteroids belong to a field of science otherwise remote from dinosaur biology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a story about science, primitive instinct, and culture and sociology, and the tension between the need to stay connected and the risks of being entranced by their siren call. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He wanted someone to congratulate him for remembering the science word. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was a decision that would launch him into a full-fledged battle with the science of genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The stories are early literature as well as early science. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes forward thinking to write science fiction. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Have you ever had the science of exactly what happens during the process of making scrambled eggs explained to you, in great detail? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were not independent sciences but a family group which held a set of geometrical techniques and measuring instruments in common. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Even the word 'music' comes from the Greek povaiy - mousike, referring to the fruits of the nine muses in literature, science and the arts. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She’d thought of a good one: Where the wet things are between art and science, encrypted in her and James’s secret language to make it a little more difficult. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Those who think that modern science derives from the empirical experimental enquiries of craftsmen and artisans need to account for the extraordinarily slow evolution of water-wheel technology prior to the introduction of Smeaton’s scientific method. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But in the case of the geometrical sciences of the seventeenth century the gaps between data and phenomena, and between phenomena and theories, are intended to be virtually non-existent. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But for him, science was the way to get answers. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence had been talent-spotted by Time-, his elevation to the magazine’s cover boy as the symbol of modern American science would soon follow. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He told her to be careful of people looking to find out where Henrietta’s grave was because they might want to steal her bones, since her body was so valuable to science. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It is hard to imagine now, but geology excited the nineteenth century–positively gripped it–in a way that no science ever had before or would again. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Him again. Well, I heard he’s a good science teacher,” he said with a smirk, “but we’re in English now. You people need to get on with today’s work.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He turned around and saw his science project on background radiation and the golden first-place trophy for his category. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Science is one of the uses we have for our mathematics, and our mathematics and our science mutually support each other. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The chink of beer mugs in pubs infested by men; the casual bonhomie of men discussing science in their male-only common room at King’s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

As Lawrence machines went, this one was a fiasco, not even yielding substantial or unique knowledge to advance the science of accelerator design. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The science lab is different from the other classrooms—it has these old thick wood tables with black marks burned into them, and metal stools to sit on. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He remembered some science lecture about the human body being mostly water. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Instead, I explain all the science to him. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No, he went to a friend’s house to work on a science project,” Mrs. Eberhardt said. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I keep thinkin, maybe if I understood some science, then the story about my mother and sister wouldn’t scare me so much,” she said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even though it means Anna and Taylor Metternich and all the other asthmatics will have to skip science and math today. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I represent the forces which allow the arts and sciences to flourish in freedom and peace, thereby enriching the lives of us all. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There it sat, occupying important intellectual ground, at just the time when entomology was emerging as an experimental science of considerable power, capable of solving matters of intricate detail, a paradigm of the new reductionism. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We and the other nations might set it as an objective of international, collaborative science to achieve a complete understanding of a single form of life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Uncle Jet asked him what he was doing with Nali out here, Nathan told him about his science experiment and that something was stealing the seeds. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His science project was on the line and it was starting to feel like all the effort he had put in was, well, worthless. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The new science was thus dependent on a few key technologies which functioned, to use Elizabeth Eisenstein’s phrase, as ‘agents of change’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I want to know how all of the parts work, so I can draw the whole shark for my science project.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Made one of these for ninth grade science. And Shanti makes them for fun in her spare time.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

"We're scientists. We must take the risks of our science and our will to achieve. Would you like to resurrect God to take responsibility?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Montaigne called these various branches of knowledge ‘sciences’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The social sciences building at the University of Michigan has a long, narrow hallway in the basement lined with filing cabinets. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Men and women crowded into Hampton Institute classrooms offering instruction in everything from radio science to chemistry. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

H. G. Wells in The Time Machine explored these possibilities as have countless other writers of science fiction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t really seem to care about winning the science fair. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

A closely related problem that is also of concern to writers of science fiction is rapid interstellar or intergalactic travel. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this does not mean that science has progressed as a result of the work of a string of irreplaceable geniuses possessed of a special insight into how the world works. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Conventional history of science tends to stop at this point. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I knew that the results I obtained were not easily compatible with our contemporary science,” Mendel wrote, and “an isolated experiment might be doubly dangerous.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Joy got a job with a computer science professor so he could program over the summer. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And it is a mistake to believe that Arthur’s civilization was weak in this famous science of ours. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The convergence of technology, science, and medicine was on display everywhere you looked. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When the Great Six inspected my library record and found it top-heavy with adventure and science fiction, they prescribed appropriate doses of Steinbeck, Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, a great many things are done that are not so closely related to science, some not related at all. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know, Otis Bottom,” he asked, “what historic event in the sciences will occur during this new year of 1969?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But Digges did not devote his life to science any more than Copernicus did, and he didn’t follow up these ideas. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I turned the corner out of the science building and pain exploded in my face. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The new history of science, beginning with Kuhn, tried to ground these new ways of thinking in intellectual communities: the success of new ideas depended upon conflict and competition within and between communities of thinkers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some people—science fiction writers and artists, for instance—have speculated on what other beings might be like. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a larger sense art, like science and religion, fulfills our innate urge to comprehend ourselves and the universe. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bet she’d been on her way back to school with my trombone, science paper, and gym shorts in the backseat of the car when Isabel called, and bam, Mom completely forgot about me. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

A little girl who liked playing hide-and-seek and studying science. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In turn, she set up the apothecary I now use and fitted it with every tool of science known in France today. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He called it ‘normal science’, as opposed to revolutionary science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Small science had not quite emptied its quiver: it would produce a few more spectacular successes, again somewhat at the expense of the Rad Lab’s reputation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Dad preferred science and math books, biographies and history. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Werner has been reading the popular science magazines in the drugstore; he’s interested in wave turbulence, tunnels to the center of the earth, the Nigerian method of relaying news over distances with drums. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Supernova was a word I’d read in science books, but this was the first time I’d ever experienced the power of one. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

If Aru had been politely indifferent to science before, now she straight up hated it. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We may as well face up to it: there is a highly visible difference between the pace of basic science and the application of new knowledge to human problems. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roy listened closely for footsteps—sneaking footsteps—but heard only the tick-tick-rick of the clock mounted above the door to the science lab. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cyclotron’s celebrity as a technological phenomenon fed on itself, fueling its inventor’s preference for engineering and salesmanship over the tedious drudgery of hard science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When we were in the fourth grade, we planned to be partners for the school-wide science fair. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He’s been promising we’d start science labs since the first day of school, but it’s been weeks. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

There he would make an even greater mark on science by taking on the core question of atomic structure. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This Jewish kid in my computer science class was bragging, saying his religion has Hanukkah, and he gets presents every day for, like, a whole week. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Wait, didn’t I help you find books on science experiments a while back?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, science is based on experience; it is open to correction by observation and experiment. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As with the Nazis, the Soviet doctrine was also bolstered and reinforced by ersatz science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In a letter in 1879, Charles wrote what he now believed about science and faith and how he had gotten there. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whenever we read books about science, it’s always HeLa this and HeLa that. Some people know those are the initials of a person, but they don’t know who that person is. That’s important history.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was going to swallow my best specimen, my science project, my Petey. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The authorities were extremely strict about this, and the only kind of publication that would pass muster might be a quarterly on actuarial science for a prisoner studying accounting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bennie had spent every year of the decade that Sierra had known her obsessed with one branch of the natural sciences or another. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

We are told instead to rely on science. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I speed-walked to the science room, not just to avoid the other kids’ stares, but also because it was so stinking hot. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

That night, after I take Mister Pugsly for a walk and finish all my homework, I try to narrow down my science project ideas. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

His insistence on the compatibility of the new science and Christian faith was an expression of his deepest convictions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If the other storytellers had been reassuring one another with science, then my mother would have flown stories as factual as bats into the listening night. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a marginal comfort to know that the relatively new science of bioacoustics must deal with similar problems in the sounds made by other animals to each other. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Alchemy is a science. There is no comparison.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Our God is bigger than the facts. He’s not limited by the laws of nature, science, or the almighty dollar.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

This must be a hard science to work in. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

White read the evaluator’s psychological study of Hale, but there was some evil that seemed beyond the scope of science. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The idea of wormholes between different regions of space-time was not an invention of science fiction writers but came from a very respectable source. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The field guide was an extra-credit project for science class that was due in September. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Lewis was an avatar of old-school solitary research, but he was delighted to play a role in stretching science’s boundaries. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“In nursing school,” she said, “I was taught by the doctors that the role of medical science is to relieve human suffering, and I’ve lived by that motto all my life.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Muller was sick of America—its dirty science, ugly politics, and selfish society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Although I still planned on winning first place at the science fair this year, we pinky swore we’d help each other with our individual projects. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“If anything can help me make Dad happy again,” I said, my voice growing bubbly, “it’s science.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gitney was but rarely restored to his previous excitement about the pursuit of the sciences. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Rather he meant that, whatever their intentions, the new sciences had undermined credulous belief. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Clearly, there were some fundamental changes before 1608, but in many respects Renaissance science was essentially an extension of classical science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In science lessons, Miss Watson called it friction. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s only the third week of school, but I can already tell you, I hate Mrs. Constance. Who needs science anyway?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

If the air is right, the science will come in its own season, like pure honey. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bills were repeatedly voted down for fear of interfering with the progress of science, even though other countries —including, ironically, Prussia—had enacted regulations governing human research as early as 1891. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

To understand why, we must travel north to Scotland and begin with a brilliant and genial man, of whom few have ever heard, who had just invented a new science called geology. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock,” he wrote, “to give the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, Ionia was the place where science was born. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is science, plain and simple,” he says to me. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

This discovery finally brought the question of the beginning of the universe into the realm of science. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps if you’d put on your little play fifty years ago it would have been a joke but the way science has progressed in that time, surely nothing is impossible....Scorchingly...” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

All her children made up their minds to major in science or mathematics. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, everyone,” Ms. Rochambeau announces, while Mr. Peck settles down some kids at the back of the science room. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I went outside, found a secluded spot under a tree, sat in the grass, and read my science book. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Remember that in science we learn as much from failures as we do from successes. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

One might hope therefore that as we advance in science and technology, we would eventually manage to build a time machine. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if they’re pushing ideas here—trying things that just may not work—this is hardly mad science. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My father knows important things, even if he isn’t “book smart” like my mother, who was a high school science teacher until Zack was born. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“The problem,” the counselor told me afterward, “is that most of the applicants have many more advanced courses in math, physics, and science than Eric does. What would we tell them?” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this sense, statistics is to probability as engineering is to physics—an applied science based on a more intellectually stimulating foundational discipline. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered the photo of her and her uncle in front of the science center. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

We quickly got it down to a science. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later scientific revolutions have transformed our knowledge, but they have not melted down and recast our idea of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It isn’t creativity that fades, but stamina: science is an endurance sport. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The way they smiled whenever Mike won a football game or Curtis won the science fair. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He had seen all these when he was researching his science project last year. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There is a third element to his new science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was supposed to be working on Auk XXV plus a variety of nozzles, casements, and nose cones for display at the science fair. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You said the science elective is supposably really hard. I heard you.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

More than anything, she told me, she wanted to learn about her mother and what her cells had done for science. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Trombone, science paper, gym shorts,” I said to her, counting on my fingers. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He never accepted the revised figures and to his dying day believed his work on the age of the Earth his most astute and important contribution to science–far greater than his work on thermodynamics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I'd have to catch up with this science of history business. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Except no backing up anything with facts or science.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

When the food science teacher made the fatal mistake of asking the class if it knew the meaning of the word condiment, Don immediately answered with “lambskin, sheepskin.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First, that grading is not an exact science. Second, this case has demonstrated amply the absurdity of setting grades by public hearing.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word that we use in modern English, ‘science’, was too vague: as we have seen, there were already lots of sciences. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He views science as an integrated web of interconnecting hypotheses, procedures, and formalisms, and argues that any impact of the world on the web can be distributed in many different ways. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started reading news reports about HeLa cells and the contamination problem and realized it would make a great story for Rolling Stone—the perfect mix of science and human interest. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Theodore Roosevelt knew that a successful trip down the River of Doubt would be a monumental feat and a valuable contribution to science. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He could not be wrong in pursuing his science, she said. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So by his second semester, he'd changed his major for the fourth time, moving from the hard sciences to the soft sciences. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Its account of a voyage to the moon marks the beginning of science fiction in English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The class waded through a morning of math, reading, and science, wishing impatiently for the afternoon to arrive. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Lawrence thereby presided over a transformation of American science as profound as any change inspired purely by scientific discovery: the launch of peacetime government patronage. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

So they served as laboratory assistants for science projects and turned the kitchen table into an honors calculus class. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We had this down to a science, and within a minute, Clue was ready. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For one thing, our methods of managing disease are constantly changing—partly under the influence of new bits of information brought in from all corners of biologic science. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having been immersed in the development of the atom’s destructive potential, they were hoping to shift as a team into work on the generation of electricity and other such peacetime aspects of the embryonic science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Although snacking on termites had amused them, they had argued with each other about how to do the science, how to search for the virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For reasons that confound medical science, the product also fails to affect those working in certain professions—the editors of fashion magazines, for example. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Zero was at the center of the struggle between religion and science. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then yesterday in my science elective, we were doing this cool mystery-powder investigation where we had to classify a substance as an acid or a base. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The different mathematical sciences were interlocked: anyone with the skills to excel in one had the skills to excel in others. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was not just science that made this new world, it was also the state, which was busy taxing citizens, borrowing money and putting armies in the field. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I could have written a science paper on the experience. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You’re not up here just to compete in a science fair,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Catholic Church had made a bad mistake with Galileo when it tried to lay down the law on a question of science, declaring that the sun went round the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between 1905 and 1925, the Fly Room at Columbia was the epicenter of genetics, a catalytic chamber for the new science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

"Nothing to tell. Leo's got a few other ideas, but basically, we ran out of science. Sort of hit a theoretical dead end." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion- making,” he began. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I like this bit because it shows you that there is always something new that science can discover, and all the facts that you take for granted can be completely wrong. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the science fiction movie, he had biceps as thick as fireplace logs and used them to swat off evil droids. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My shoulders slumped as I stood outside the science building and stared at the students walking around, going to and from class. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

My own starting point, for what it’s worth, was an illustrated science book that I had as a classroom text when I was in fourth or fifth grade. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

So that whole morning, while I basically sleepwalked though science, math, ELA, and Spanish, I couldn’t stop replaying the scene in the band room. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t need to demonstrate his science and art to anyone. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no inkling that his adopted city would, indeed, witness the unleashing of the new science of genetics, but in its most grisly form in history. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

For starters, there was the time a buxom blond cheerleader with flawless skin and adorable freckles very loudly declared in science class that students with acne should "just wash their faces." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

These five factors help explain the limited success of experimental science in a medieval context. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the history of science there is no simple solution to the apparently binary choice between radical contingency and predictable evolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The debate over the commercialization of human biological materials always comes back to one fundamental point: like it or not, we live in a market-driven society, and science is part of that market. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Some in her group—she remembered a boy named Marcus, who excelled in school and was assigned a future as an engineer—would continue on and learn various sciences. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z