But the animal movement must take its stand firmly on the side of science - a science bound by ethical constraints on how it treats animals, just as it is bound by ethical constraints on the way it treats human subjects of research.
The hunt for blue — and all the other hues — is a tale as bound up in science and technology as in aesthetics and tradition.
Jo Johnson, the new Minister for Universities and Science has twice gone before the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee, and twice only been able to make vague assurances about the government's plans for science, bound presumably by Treasury insistence on keeping the details secret.
Teaching practice, informed by context-relevant research, is bound to advance science education in the classroom.
That leaves industry-bound science trainees in a difficult position.
But to say something like, well, science has only just discovered dark matter, so how do you know god isn't out there too, beyond the reach, either temporarily or permanently, of Earth-bound science, is to misunderstand again the nature of science and, indeed, the nature of religion.
His mind, freed from all preconception, rebelled at the narrowness of the empiricism in which the disciples of Isaac Newton had bound the natural sciences; in dissertations sent to St . Petersburg he attacked the problem of the structure of matter.
It's a very rare lab that produces only science of high potential impact and broad relevance; even if you're focused on important problems, you're bound to produce some science that's just as good but of significance to a narrower audience.
But Mikki Bieber's forensic science students bound up to the roof two steps at a time, eager to take part in one of the latest educational fads.
As noted, normal science is bound to turn up difficulties that resist resolution, at least some of which are sooner or later recognized by the community.
