Definition of Scientific

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Scientific

Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.

Agreeing with, or depending on, the rules or principles of science; as, a scientific classification; a scientific arrangement of fossils.

Having a knowledge of science, or of a science; evincing science or systematic knowledge; as, a scientific chemist; a scientific reasoner; a scientific argument.

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Scientific Quotations

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald Reagan

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
Richard Dawkins

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
Richard Dawkins

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Charles Darwin

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Charles Darwin

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Vincent Van Gogh

Scientific Translations

scientific in Danish is videnskabelig
scientific in Dutch is wetenschappelijk
scientific in German is wissenschaftlich
scientific in Italian is scientifico
scientific in Swedish is vetenskaplig

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