It was therefore put aside by astronomers, for it is hard to do useful science when you have only one example of something.
I argue that there's no point in building an instrument and sending it out to the most remote region of Earth if the data we get back isn't good enough to do useful science with.
"What's awkward," said Dr. Varmus, "is when the demands are in excess of the opportunities to do useful science".
"Kids can actually perform useful science".
The names 'Art' and 'Science' are no longer doing useful jobs, if, for example, we want to talk effectively about creativity.
They've done useful things.
Some other commissioners do useful things.
America, which has done most to bankroll the $100 billion cost of the ISS (which this newspaper has always considered an orbital white elephant with an exorbitant price tag that does precious little useful science).
"This is an incredible buy if they're able to get some useful science done at the same time," he added.
Unlike advertising, science does make useful progress, but this does not diminish the area of uncertainty so much as move it to new questions.
