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Biological science   /bˌaɪəlˈɑdʒɪkəl sˈaɪəns/   Listen
Biological science

noun
1.
The science that studies living organisms.  Synonym: biology.






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"Biological science" Quotes from Famous Books



... Biological science, which a generation ago was supposed to be at the antipodes of exact science, is becoming more and more exact, and is cultivated by methods which are developed and taught by mathematicians. Psychophysics—the study of the operations of the mind by physical apparatus ...
— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb

... and complete exposition of Psychology, as it takes shape in a mind previously informed with biological science.... Well written, extremely entertaining, ...
— The Evolution of Modern Capitalism - A Study of Machine Production • John Atkinson Hobson

... understand that I have not been talking mere theory; I have been speaking of matters which are as plainly demonstrable as the commonest propositions of Euclid—of facts that must form the basis of all speculations and beliefs in Biological science. We have gradually traced down all organic forms, or, in other words, we have analyzed the present condition of animated nature, until we found that each species took its origin in a form similar to that under which all the others commence their ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

... of Biological science which are "inexact"? I think not. If I say that respiration is performed by the lungs; that digestion is effected in the stomach; that the eye is the organ of sight; that the jaws of a vertebrated animal never open sideways, but always up and down; while those ...
— Science & Education • Thomas H. Huxley

... might say the whole conceivable range, of biological science is sketched out, and the greater part of the great canvas is painted in. But to bring it into touch with human life, and to make good its claim to the high places of philosophy, we must go yet farther and study Life itself, and what men call the Soul. So grows the great conception. We begin ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various



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