He also majored in astronomy as an undergraduate, and about nine years ago, feeling science-deprived, he joined a multinational research endeavor called the Archimedes Project, based at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Is there a feeling that science skills are undervalued in the civil service?
If "Mad Men" were set in the Midtown offices, West Side apartments and Larchmonts of today, it would have the vague feeling of science fiction.
"I sort of always had a feeling for science," said Mr. Trump, who added that he would be happy to cut a check if called upon to do so.
Edmonds, Comey wrote, believed that "affirmative action is a futile attempt only tolerated because 'social concerns are dominated by feeling, not science.' " The Flat Hat received many letters of protest.
True, the American capital was uncannily empty on Presidents Day weekend, but that only reinforced the feeling of science's ubiquitous presence.At this point, a waggish remark would usually follow to illustrate the plethora of topics covered in the innumerable lectures, seminars, symposia, poster sessions and the like.
But more than anyone else, perhaps, Ral has hit upon a certain psychological truth: namely, that a common response to the disquieting feeling that science is accelerating beyond our capacity to comprehend it -- let alone control it -- is to declare oneself fervently, if confusedly, on its side.
"Many people have the feeling that science must not evaluate the truth or falsity of 'sacred' religious beliefs," he says.
The angst felt by many in the scientific arena "reflects a widespread feeling that science has become an ethical minefield," suggested panellist Simon Best, CEO of Ardana Bioscience.
I have the feeling in science [that] people are very nice to foreigners, maybe because there are so many of us," he says.
