In one she speaks of science being but one portal through which to observe an aquarium of life.
Arthur Balfour, a British prime minister, might have been speaking of science when he famously said that 'nothing matters much and few things matter at all.' Many studies are never cited once, most disappear within a few years, and very few have real, continuing importance.
The sciences of natural phenomena do not, Grosseteste claims, fully meet the requirements for a fully demonstrative science, though if we relax the conditions governing demonstrations somewhat we may speak of a demonstrative science of natural phenomena (see the entry on Medieval Theories of Demonstration for details).
He spoke of basic science as "Newtonian" and applied science as "Edisonian".
Historians of science speak of two scientific revolutions: the Copernican, which removed the Earth from the center of the universe to become one more planet revolving around the Sun; and the Darwinian, which removed humans from being the center of life to become one more animal species.
This is why, when Aristotle speaks of a science of well-being, he gives it the name of politics.
Banks sometimes spoke of his science fiction books as a writerly vacation from the demands of literary fiction, where he could "pull out the stops", as he himself put it.
The upshot is a need to be attentive to the question of what anyone, even including Newton himself, had in mind when they spoke of the science of the Principia.
When educators speak of women in computer science, they often refer to the "pipeline," which tends to start in high school and wind its way through graduate studies.
The evidence from the literature, however, is that there is little investigator driven social science to speak of in the NTDs, and a similarly poor presence of interdisciplinary science.
