Snow science, advanced as it has become, is an exercise in estimation.
Convinced that religious belief is a by-product of ignorance, they assumed that as science advanced faith would become a harmless private eccentricity or disappear altogether.
As medical science advanced, more conditions would become amenable to routine treatment, and expensive hospital care could be restricted to fewer cases.
Kuhn, in his 1962 book, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions," had proposed a theory about the history of science: science advanced, he thought, not by smoothly unfurling, but by making hard-to-anticipate conceptual leaps, which he called "paradigm shifts".
The confrontation between theory and practice, as the project of Filangieri's science advanced, was to result in a detailed legal reform program for European nation-states and their interaction as a system.
They knew how strange it sounded, the hope that Kim's brain could be preserved in subzero storage so that decades or centuries from now, if science advanced, her billions of interconnected neurons could be scanned, analyzed and converted into computer code that mimicked how they once worked.
