WordNet
n. a particular branch of scientific knowledge; "the science of genetics" [syn: science]
Usage examples of "scientific discipline".
At any one time, in any one scientific discipline, there would never be enough workers on Thalassa to reach 'critical mass'--the minimum number of reacting minds needed to ignite fundamental research into some new field of knowledge.
At any one time, in any one scientific discipline, there would never be enough workers on Thalassa to reach 'critical mass' - the minimum number of reacting minds needed to ignite fundamental research into some new field of knowledge.
More than any other, it straddles the fence your people have mistakenly erected between the scientific discipline of physics and the philosophical discipline of metaphysics.
How will we manage to get environmentalism out of the clutches of religion, and back to a scientific discipline?
They tell the narrator and the other brothers that such emotional tactics are not in keeping with the scientific discipline of the Brotherhood.
Cybernetics, a valuable recent scientific discipline, articulated by the late Norbert Wiener, saw valid comparisons between the behavior of machines and humans -- with the view that a study of machines would yield valuable insights into the nature of our own behavior.