SCIENTIFIC in a Sentence

Learn SCIENTIFIC from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

100 example sentences for SCIENTIFIC, such as:

1. Bad times have a scientific value.
2. I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind.
3. We believe in investing in scientific research.
4. He took a very scientific approach to management.
5. He has dedicated his life to scientific research.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCIENTIFIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scientific
 a.  conforming with the principles or methods used in science
 a.  of or relating to the practice of science
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will; unless it were that hide-bound pedant, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
2  DEAR LANYON, You are one of my oldest friends; and although we may have differed at times on scientific questions, I cannot remember, at least on my side, any break in our affection.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
3  And it chanced that the direction of my scientific studies, which led wholly toward the mystic and the transcendental, re-acted and shed a strong light on this consciousness of the perennial war among my members.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
4  For two good reasons, I will not enter deeply into this scientific branch of my confession.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
5  I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
6  He had brought back much scientific information from South Africa, and many a charming evening we have spent together discussing the comparative anatomy of the Bushman and the Hottentot.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
7  It is evidently a case of extraordinary interest, and one which presented immense opportunities to the scientific expert.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Problem
8  It is the scientific use of the imagination, but we have always some material basis on which to start our speculation.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
9  Thus encouraged, our scientific friend drew his papers from his pocket and presented the whole case as he had done upon the morning before.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
10  To the scientific student of the higher criminal world, no capital in Europe offered the advantages which London then possessed.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
11  As long as the criminal remains upon two legs so long must there be some indentation, some abrasion, some trifling displacement which can be detected by the scientific searcher.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
12  With a glow of admiration I watched Holmes unrolling his case of instruments and choosing his tool with the calm, scientific accuracy of a surgeon who performs a delicate operation.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
13  Your fatal habit of looking at everything from the point of view of a story instead of as a scientific exercise has ruined what might have been an instructive and even classical series of demonstrations.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
14  Here is a popular scientific diagram, a weather record.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
15  Though a Gopher Prairie regards itself as a part of the Great World, compares itself to Rome and Vienna, it will not acquire the scientific spirit, the international mind, which would make it great.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
Example Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
16  He took a very scientific approach to management.
17  The scientific management method has brought about many changes in factory production.
18  Bad times have a scientific value.
19  Philosophy is the scientific knowledge that summarizes the nature and society.
20  It does so with blithe disregard for best scientific practice.
21  The printing press helped diffuse scientific knowledge.
22  We believe in investing in scientific research.
23  He has dedicated his life to scientific research.
24  There are very few openings in scientific research.
25  Our image information is an under-used resource of enormous potential value for scientific research, public enquiries, and commercial development.
26  Television has an important role to play in popularizing new scientific ideas.
27  We found further scientific evidence for this theory.
28  Einstein's new theory on optics changed classical scientific ideas about light.
29  The theory made the greatest pretence of having a scientific foundation.
30  Her studies of the primitive art forms of the aboriginal Indians were widely reported in the scientific journals.