His scientific obsessions were no secret in his quiet, residential neighborhood.
He describes how individual scientific obsessions, like Charles David Keeling's preoccupation with creating a precise record of carbon dioxide concentrations, produced vital puzzle pieces.
The "Foucauldian" left, he writes in "Achieving Our Country," "represents an unfortunate regression to the Marxist obsession with scientific rigor".
And like Gerry Anderson's puppet, the celebrated proprietor of the Michelin-starred restaurant the Fat Duck radiates an obsession with scientific discovery.
Franz Josef Gall's invention of phrenology, in the early eighteen-hundreds, marked the start of the scientific community's lasting obsession with dissecting and measuring the human brain.
The pursuit of creativity in research work is a frequent obsession of scientific leaders and policymakers, particularly, it seems, when federal science budgets shrink.
Our suicidal obsession with scientific progress will not be replaced by a more humane or spiritual conception of the universe.
She kept reminding me of Leonardo's obsession with his scientific studies, an obsession that eventually supplanted his interest in painting.
Underpinning it is not a vague nostalgia for simpler times, but scientific evidence that our modern obsession with hygiene is playing havoc with our health.
