Moreover, philosophers of science are expected to know a great deal of the science about which they philosophize and to be cautious in telling practicing scientists what concepts they may or may not use.
For scientists the concept of psychological resilience began in the 1970s with studies of children who did fine – or even well in life – despite significant early adversity, such as poverty or family violence.
"There's this unknown maverick scientist whose concept, if correct, could solve the world's energy problems.
An encounter with a lupus patient crystallized one scientist's concept of "translational research" and fundamentally changed the focus of her lab.
As a physician and public health scientist, the concept of causation underlies much of my work.
After all, before scientists developed the concepts of biochemistry, many found it impossible to imagine how organisms could be entirely physical.
For cognitive scientists, similarity between concepts is also a main topic.
BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1 String Theory Turns 20 Twenty years ago, scientists unveiled a concept to unify all the laws of physics: string theory.
Some social scientists use the concept of social structure as a device for creating an order for the various aspects of social life.
In those works Lovelock portrayed Gaia more clearly as a metaphorical being that embodied Earth as a broad self-organizing system, and many scientists saw the concept's usefulness in encapsulating the complex interactions between organisms and how they might respond to human activities.
