Uncertainty along the way is the hallmark of science and the price of progress.
However, a deep tension will persist until the faithful recognise that a willingness to question even one's most fervently held beliefs – the hallmark of science – is a trait that should be respected, not reviled.
He often highlighted scientific theory as classificatory (PD 363) and emphasized the relating of higher and lower levels of generality as the hallmark of science.
Replicability is the hallmark of science.
But the hallmark of science and the method that makes it strong is neither belief nor faith, but trust.
Take the arguable hallmark of science fiction, "2001: A Space Odyssey," and its layered story about a sentient computer that nearly robs astronauts' ability to control their spacecraft.
The ability to question something until it has been proven to be true without a leap of faith is the hallmark of science, claims Professor Krauss.
Historically, government-sponsored research on the U.S. Arctic has been driven not by that hallmark of science, curiosity, but by the desire to drill for oil and gas -- by, that is, two impulses that are quite unscientific in nature.
While the book provides all the (formal) hallmarks of science, Grundmann sees it less as a scholarly work than a passionate attack with a biased perspective.
The following year, costume contests became a hallmark of science-fiction conventions, although it was decades before wearing them all day and walking around getting photographed became normal con behavior.
