Definition of "sciences" []

• Plural form of science. (noun)

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• "A single modern observation on a star has to undergo a careful analysis by the combined aid of various sciences -- has to _be digested by the organism of the sciences_; which have severally to assimilate their respective parts of the observation, before the essential fact it contains is available for the further development of astronomy."
• "In many of what we term sciences, these two kinds are mixed up together; but systematic botany is a pure example of the former kind, and physics of the latter kind, of science."
• "I spent years learning what you call the sciences but it was difficult to find entities who knew how to teach them."