Science
Chemistry
- Functional group, a functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule
- Group (periodic table), a column in the periodic table of chemical elements
Biology
- Cultivar group, a formal classification category in the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP)
- Group selection, in evolutionary biology, the idea that alleles can become fixed or spread in a population because of the benefits they bestow upon groups of organisms
Cosmology
- Galaxy groups and clusters, a small number of galaxies near each other
- Local Group, the group containing the Milky Way Galaxy
Other
- Group delay and phase delay
- a set of lenses stacked together
- Group (stratigraphy), in geology, a lithostratigraphical unit; a group consists of formations, or rock strata
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as well as by application. It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)