(adj.) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; 'theoretical science' .
(adj.) concerned with theories rather than their practical applications; 'theoretical physics' .
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Galileo determined to study the laws of mechanics by experiment, and not, as so many earlier scientists had done, by argument or mere theoretical opinions. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
The emphasis in school upon this particular tool has, however, its dangers--dangers which are not theoretical but exhibited in practice. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
Hence it will be obvious that these toys produced merely an ILLUSION of THEORETICAL motion. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
But if the thinker sees at all deeply into the life of his own time, his theoretical system will rest upon observation of human nature. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
But without much success: his contact with American life is not direct, and so he is capable of purely theoretical affirmations. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
But their practic al achievements far transcended their theoretical formulations. 李贝.西洋科学史.
They rest nearly always upon theoretical assumptions of the slenderest kind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
We cannot wait in politics for any completed theoretical discussion of its method: it is a monstrous demand. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
He was conscious of the practical, as well as the theoretical, import of his investigation. 李贝.西洋科学史.
His theoretical grounds for ignoring the question in politics are very interesting just because they are vitalized by this practical difficulty which he faced. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
I have not done that because this rational procedure inverts the natural order of things and develops all kinds of theoretical tangles and pseudo-problems. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
It was a small part of THIS VERY THING; only the time was not ripe; theoretical knowledge was not ready for it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Phillipe Lebon, a French engineer, in 1799 and in 1801 anticipated in a theoretical way many ideas since successfully reduced to practice. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
But like so many theoretical riddles, this one rested on a very simple piece of ignorance. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
We deprive anarchists of free speech by the heavy hand of a police magistrate, and furnish them with a practical instead of a theoretical argument against government. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Such is the situation as an affair of theoretical psychology and as most adequately stated by Aristotle. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
For scientific men would have been thought to be mere theoretical dreamers, totally lacking in social efficiency. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
Similarly, to the nineteenth century thirteen important theoretical discoveries are ascribed, to the eighteenth only two, and to the seventeenth five. 李贝.西洋科学史.
A few bilious Britons there were who would not subscribe to this article of faith; but their objection was purely theoretical. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
Nevertheless, having received fresh instructions from Adams relative to the theoretical place of the new planet, he began observations July 29. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Poincaré is inclined to account for these sudden solutions of theoretical difficulties on the assumption of long periods of previous unconscious work. 李贝.西洋科学史.
My theoretical and his practical knowledge together could not have failed. 简·奥斯汀.曼斯菲尔德庄园.
Here again, howev er, it is the fundamental, the indispensable, the practical forms of knowledge that stand revealed rather than the theoretical, speculative, and purely intellectual. 李贝.西洋科学史.