"In certain kinds of science there are real norms and restrictions in place," she said.
He is likewise sure that the financial markets do not acknowledge the true hazards of certain kinds of science.
The Trump administration has made no secret of its disdain for certain kinds of science, particularly on climate, the environment and public health.
"One of the running jokes is that there are better articles on Pokémon than on certain kinds of science," said Alex Schenck, 19, a volunteer site administrator who delivered a presentation on the factors behind Wikipedia's success.
The laws have also been used by an array of groups troubled by the policy uses of certain kinds of science, including research into water and air pollution, climate change, genetically modified foods, and gun violence.
But it borrows ideas from physics and uses them to launch a particular trajectory, which it then faithfully follows," Dr. Carroll said in an e-mail, calling the movie "an excellent example of a certain kind of fruitful interaction between science and cinema".
She's also fond of generalizing from a perspective at times pious ("Many good things come out of sacrifice"), feminist ("There is a certain kind of professor, often in the sciences, who seems to keep a wife only to insult her") and self-deprecating ("There is always someone else round the corner doing it better, charging less and cornering the market").
As I argue in Truth or Beauty, our obsession with a certain kind of beauty may again be leading science down the wrong path - and not just in physics, but in everything from medicine to finance.
It's like if you know science or you know math, there is a certain kind of mechanical calm when you're like, "We're done".
