The phrase "abstract science" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to scientific disciplines that focus on theoretical concepts rather than practical applications, often dealing with ideas and principles that are not directly observable.
Example: "Mathematics is often considered an abstract science, as it deals with concepts that may not have physical representations."
Alternatives: "theoretical science" or "conceptual science".
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As a popularizer of exquisitely abstract science, he is both a skilled and kindly explicator.
"Lévi-Straussian structuralism rushed into the ensuing ideological vacuum — except that structuralism, as a detached, abstract science of culture, was itself a kind of vacuum," he writes.
curriculum makes connections, professors say, between the relatively abstract science being taught in the classroom and the way it plays out in real life.
The field of engineering has the potential to unlock students' imaginations and to make their abstract science and math lessons come to life.
Greene, whose 1999 book, "The Elegant Universe," outlined the case for string theory, is adept at popularizing even the most arcane principles of abstract science.
In her previous writing, Thomas, a Briton, has demonstrated a flair for taking ambitious and abstract science-fiction concepts and making them accessible to a broader readership.
Following a reasonably successful academic year, however, he concluded that the abstract sciences and the higher mathematics as then taught had little relationship to the solution of practical problems, and he left the school, preferring to spend his time in his own shop and laboratory.
Empedocles, Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Thucydides receive the tribute of the most advanced and abstract modern science every night, in the calm voice of this affectionate brother who keeps his sister company.
(He doesn't say "sound not metaphor", incidentally, because his music is not some abstract sonic science lesson, but about how sound affects our ears, about how we hear, about how it makes our brains and bodies vibrate, and what it can make us feel. Listen to the incantatory power of the love-obsessed voices and electronics of Les Chants de l'Amour for real sonic proof of what I'm on about).
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