pure science

His strong trend toward pure science and abstract mental life forced him onward into post-graduate work.

Try to confine yourself to science, to pure science; learn to love facts for themselves.

It would be pure science and patient calculation: an algebraical hippogriff, with pluck in the saddle.

They tend to substantiate our conviction that Democritus must rank below Anaxagoras as a devotee of pure science.

I want Mr. Johnston to get this point: what we want is fiction, pure Science Fiction and not instructions.