dismal science

Great resources were devoted to the science of air crash investigation.

As the weeks wore on, the pretence of practical teaching was quietly dropped, and we crammed our science out of the text-book.

I cannot see in science, nor in experience, nor in history any signs of such a God, nor of such intervention.

I need not inquire whether his dismal behaviour was natural or assumed.

Science teaches that man existed during the glacial epoch, which was at least fifty thousand years before the Christian era.

And when he did leave the dismal scene of this last act of his miseries, it was like the spectre of the man who had entered it.