The phrase "vocation of science" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to the pursuit of science as a profession or purpose for one's life. For example, "John has chosen the vocation of science and is currently pursuing his PhD in Physics."
Called, respectively, "Advice to a Young Scientist" and "Avoid Boring People," these are not their authors' best books, but they offer memorable hints for success in the vocation of science.
Or is it all just a wishy-washy philosophy of individualism paradoxically based on conforming to one idea, a misguided attempt to reconcile the probing, questioning vocation of science with the supposedly eternal truths bequeathed by religious fables?
"But what's even more interesting to me is that this story was included, of all the stories that Matthew might have included," he said, growing animated as he does when diving into his twin vocations of science and theology.
The post at the Zoological Society was an almost unique halfway house between a research vocation and a career in the wider world of science.
I come to the work I present here by way of two vocations, one as a historian of science, and the other as a human rights activist.
He says he wanted to be a scientist from the age of four when his father gave him a primitive electronics set, and reckons the sense of science as a vocation that motivated him has largely disappeared.
Weber's methodology in the end amounts to a call for the heroic character-virtue of clear-sightedness and intellectual integrity that together constitute a genuine person of science — a scientist with a sense of vocation who has a passionate commitment to one's own specialized research, yet is utterly "free of illusions" [Löwith 1982, 38].
The lectures, "Politics as a Vocation" and "Science as a Vocation," address the nature of learning, scholarship and political action.
Medal of Science Winners.
Master of science: Human Services.
