Sentences with 'disprove'
Example sentences and phrases with the word disprove and other words derived from it.
• « Bacon is best remembered for "creating" the scientific method: advancing a hypothesis to explain the observed data, but then trying to disprove the hypothesis rather than trying to force the facts to prove it. »
• « A Danish astronomer named Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601) attempted to disprove the theory of heliocentrism by publishing a massive work of astronomical observations and corresponding mathematical data that attempted to show that the Earth was indeed at the centre of the universe but that celestial bodies followed monstrously complex orbits. »
• « He likes to test or disprove household myths: he once armed himself with a thermometer and a stopwatch, and set about blowing and puffing on spoonfuls of boiling water, to see if the soup really does cool like that. He concluded that it does cool, but not very much when it is thick. »