As science has steadily undermined the long-held beliefs of religion, almost all that remains for people of faith is to say that God is a mystery and will always be one.
The pace of data generation in the life sciences is steadily increasing.
Science operates by steadily chipping away at ideas through experiments or observations, eventually revealing truths, but often obliquely -- by eliminating what is not true.
The letter from Dr. Richter and the other laureates gave no budget numbers but said the overall federal science budget "has steadily fallen over the years, while our rivals in Europe and Asia invest more".
EU funding of UK social science has risen steadily since the financial crisis (outpacing a rise in EU funding of other UK disciplines), and social scientists have been highly successful in obtaining European Research Council grants (ranking first among EU member states on a number of measures).
For more than 10 years, from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, the figure had hovered around 20, out of about 280, or about 7.1%--a perioduringng which the national pool of female science Ph.D.s grew steadily.
Science has been steadily chipping away at the problem for more than 100 years.
Moreover, although research on conceptual difficulties in molecular life science is growing steadily, studies that focus on ways to overcome difficulties associated with depicting processes at different levels of organization are needed.
For both the number of active grants and amount of funds awarded over time, basic science research has steadily increased, with the rate of increase picking up beginning in 1998.
The advancements of science and technology are steadily broadening our horizons.
