"If I could go back to being a scientist, I would do it, " he says.
Being a scientist, he decided to seek out different data: from a stool sample.
But as well as being a scientist, Mr Rines was for 50 years a patent lawyer.
How frustrating or useful is it being a scientist on the battlefield or in a war zone?
Another aspect of being a scientist that I think is important for the Pope is that one of the great virtues of the sciences is humility.
With the new pope being himself a trained scientist -- Francis graduated as a chemical technician before moving on to study philosophy, psychology and theology -- the timing could be right for a new era of cooperation between the Vatican and science, building on the work of the STOQ Project -- Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest -- which was created by Pope John Paul II in 2003.
"It's quite likely that this moon will now join the ranks of Mars and Jupiter's moon Europa where you might have liquid water - and the biologists could start getting interested in this being a place were life might possibly arise, " enthused Dr Torrence Johnson, a Cassini scientist from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
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Once the makers had an image, they found a white-coated scientist to devise a recipe, which was described on the bottle as being more than 400 years old.
The name for this multi-skilled position is the data scientist, a role that is now being defined at leading companies across the globe.
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Sam Abrams, a political scientist at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, cannot see any Republican being capable both of winning the nomination of the party in its current mood and appealing to Jewish voters.
Mr. GENE BEAUPRE (Political Scientist, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio): Steve has a reputation as being really a loyal Republican soldier in a fight if you will.
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