The most worthy global science project is a project that opens science to all.
Axiology, (from Greek axios, "worthy"; logos, "science"), also called Theory Of Value, the philosophical study of goodness, or value, in the widest sense of these terms.
Calling themselves the Four Horsemen, they strut to the stage like Olympic athletes prepared to execute feats worthy of science fiction, which they pull off without missing a beat but with a lot of help from computer-generated effects.
Even as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration continues to flounder in a search for its future, Dr. Friedman announced Monday that the Planetary Society, with help from an anonymous donor, would be taking baby steps toward a future worthy of science fiction.
One example: cutting off an elderly woman on the sidewalk and thinking to herself, "Your scooter is taking too long — outta my way, lady!" Already wishing the city could cap the number of people moving to Manhattan, Ms. Stiller-Farrell says she dreads every new building she sees — her imagination immediately launches into an apocalyptic vision of skyscrapers and darkness worthy of science fiction.
The conditions diagnosed in these patients sometimes have names worthy of science fiction, like alien hand syndrome (a man's hand has a mind of its own) or Alice in Wonderland syndrome (a woman's visual perception is altered so that she feels as if she's in a carnival fun house).
If the thesis of natural selection is equivalent to the claim that those that survive are the fittest, and if the fittest are identified as those that survive, then the thesis of natural selection is equivalent to the claim that those that survive are those that survive true indeed, but hardly an observation worthy of science.
I think you have to think very early in your scientific career, in your Ph.D., in your postdoc, about doing studies that are worthy of Science and not just worthy of low-level journals.
