Science Museum

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noun

a museum in London, originating from 1852 and given its present name and site in 1899: contains collections relating to the history of science, technology, and industry

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sciatic spine, SCID, science, science dictionary, science fiction, Science Museum, science park, scienter, scientia est potentia, sciential, scientific

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Example sentences from the Web for Science Museum

As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
Citizens, perhaps, need to feel like they can communicate something to science.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
“I heard Jeffrey was interested in supporting science and I contacted him,” Krauss said.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking|M.L. Nestel|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“We talked about the science the whole time the other day,” Krauss told The Daily Beast in a phone interview.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking|M.L. Nestel|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Great resources were devoted to the science of air crash investigation.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly?|Clive Irving|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
As the weeks wore on, the pretence of practical teaching was quietly dropped, and we crammed our science out of the text-book.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
I cannot see in science, nor in experience, nor in history any signs of such a God, nor of such intervention.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
While residing in Brussels these two artists began to collect works of art for what is now known as the Mesdag Museum.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
Science teaches that man existed during the glacial epoch, which was at least fifty thousand years before the Christian era.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
Probably they do not devote quite as much time to it as our caballeros, who are quite adepts in the science.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various

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