pure science

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And Musk, Bezos and even Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai are saying stuff that sounds like pure science fiction for a new generation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

Programs that superficially appear to be pure science but that provide data crucial for planning the missions to the moon and Mars are being terminated.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

From medicine, we want pure science, but what we get is a complicated tangle of guesswork and certainty, tried-and-true and trial-and-error.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2023

Quite to the contrary, the film reaches moments of ecstatic joy when it is allowed to slough off politics like a snake shedding unwanted dead skin, and instead focus on pure science.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2023

Science—the research programme, the experimental method, the interlocking of pure science and new technology, the language of defeasible knowledge—was invented between 1571 and 1704.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton