Category: SciencePart of speech: nounDifficulty: CommonRecommended for ★ UPSC

наука

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English meaning: Science

Definition

The systematic study of the natural world. Russia/Soviet Union made extraordinary scientific achievements — Sputnik (world's first satellite, 1957), Yuri Gagarin (first human in space, 1961), Mendeleev's periodic table, Pavlov's conditioned reflexes, and the discovery of the Cherenkov radiation. Soviet science was state-funded and produced remarkable achievements in space, mathematics, and physics.

Example

Юрий Гагарин стал первым человеком в космосе 12 апреля 1961 года.

In English: Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space on April 12, 1961.

Literary Heritage

Природа не храм, а мастерская, и человек в ней работник.

/Priroda ne khram, a masterskaya, i chelovek v ney rabotnik./

Nature is not a temple but a workshop, and man is the worker in it.

Иван Тургенев · Novelist · 19th century

Отцы и дети

Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (Отцы и дети, 1862), Ch. 9, Bazarov speaking

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