Sentence examples for descriptive science from inspiring English sources
Biology is no longer a descriptive science.
Most biology, says McCarthy, is still predominantly a qualitative, descriptive science.
Medicine is not a predictive science; it is, at best, post-dictive based on biology, which is a descriptive science.
Since the 1930s, biology had been turning from a largely descriptive science into one concerned with mechanism.
It is shown how catalysis science changes from a descriptive science, focusing on structure-performance relations to a predictive science, with a basis in molecular mechanistic understanding.
Developmental biology has evolved from a descriptive science to one based on genetic principles and molecular mechanisms.
This requires descriptive science-driven statistical models and methods that relate our best underlying physical processes to observables.
This example illustrates the way in which ethics differs from the descriptive sciences.
In "Industry and Art: A Long Embrace" [April 22], Vicki Goldberg notes the role of art in the development of the descriptive sciences.
As to art influencing science, the art historian Erwin Panofsky wrote that the discovery, five centuries ago, of perspective drawing and the drawing of three-dimensional objects to scale was as important to the development of the descriptive sciences before Galileo as the telescope and microscope were afterward.
Aside from the well-known theological/philosophical controversies this new theory generated, it also forced biologists, who were fixated on descriptive sciences such as dissections and taxonomies, to consider how and why creatures had evolved to their present form.
