So how much of a victory for science is the "gay gene" test?
Disappointing though its outcome was, the study represented a victory for science over guesswork, of hard data over hunches.
The stunning victories of medical science over the last century have, according to some critics, left too many doctors arrogant and unwilling to concede defeat (the militaristic cliches are essential to this vision of medicine and the body).
Regardless of what happens, "it's already been a huge victory for science," he said.
That's a rare victory for science and for scientists.
In a victory for science, Watson, the IBM -developed artificial intelligence, has indeed won.
To divert scarce funds away from these promising avenues would be a sad victory of politics over science.
The sculpture, an optimistic piece depicting the victory of education and science over the forces of war, greed and materialism, has been restored and remains on public view in Middlesex County's Roosevelt Park in Edison, itself a W.P.A. project named in honor of the agency's patron.
There have been some recent victories for science — most notably, the defeat of intelligent-design instruction in Dover, Pennsylvania.
At the forum 2 weeks after Obama's victory, a high-level panel of science policy veterans agreed with the moderator, Science magazine Deputy Editor Katrina Kelner, that "many groups are feeling optimistic," but "the glow has to be tempered by the funding situation and the economic crisis".
