1. science
It's not rocket science.
By freeing thought from its object, Descartes made it possible to view the latter in strictly mechanical terms, reopening the way to science, suffocated for more than fifteen centuries under religious nonsense.
Mathematics is the part of science you could continue to do if you woke up tomorrow and discovered the universe was gone.
Science, my lad, is made out of errors, but of good ones, for they bring you step by step closer to the truth.
In the Middle Ages Latin temporarily assured linguistic equal opportunity in the fields of religion, culture and science.
An experiment, I would learn much later, when studying the philosophy of science, had to arise from a real dissatisfaction with existing knowledge.
What is political science? From the "political," people will probably first associate it with the political incidents that enliven journalism.
Advances in science and technology and other areas of society in the last 100 years have brought to the quality of life both advantages and disadvantages.
Philosophy is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.
In order to live happily and healthily with parakeets or parrots, you should understand the science of animal behavior for domesticated birds, and consider the emotional effect of eventually losing them.
Science and technology have come to pervade every aspect of our lives and, as a result, society is changing at a speed which is quite unprecedented.
This science fiction story seems interesting. Will you lend it to me when you have finished reading it?
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils.
2. nature
I love nature.
I have no patience with those who say that sexual excitement is shameful and that venereal stimuli have their origin not in nature, but in sin. Nothing is so far from the truth.
There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity — the law of nature, and of nations.
Robinson considers nature a mere object of scientific study to exploit for his own uses and pleasure.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
Never were finer women or more accomplished men seen in any Court, and Nature seemed to have taken pleasure in lavishing her greatest graces on the greatest persons.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
The twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac come from eleven kinds of animals originating in nature, namely the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, horse, snake, monkey, rooster, dog and pig, as well as the legendary form of the dragon, and are used as a calendar.
Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received. Of itself it has nothing but the empty forms of its operation.
The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Inglês palavra "природа"(nature) ocorre em conjuntos:
1000 most important Ukrainian nouns 300 - 350