"Even scientists sometimes find it difficult to count the number of fish in the sea, " he said.
They tied pay and budgets to performance, even for scientists in the ivory tower.
Even though scientists were not seen favourably, their work was recognised as improving the quality of life.
Its fine-scale measurements will even permit scientists to conduct some strenuous tests of General Relativity - Einstein's theory of gravity.
Even if scientists at CERN can pinpoint where the Higgs is lurking, it may not be enough to claim a formal discovery yet.
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But it is a salutary reminder that the limitations of human senses can cause even competent scientists to overlook obvious lines of enquiry.
Two long-beaked echidnas, primitive egg-laying mammals, even allowed scientists to pick them up and bring them back to their camp to be studied, he added.
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Even if scientists figure out how to make milk with stem cells, it's unlikely they will be able to create milk with the same efficiency as they can corn or wheat.
Even if scientists could agree on the contribution of global warming to the rising frequency of such disasters, it would still be hard to classify the causes of any given catastrophe.
Even then, scientists acknowledge, our understanding of the human genome will still be at a very primitive stage.
Even if the scientists had wanted to, they could not have made a feast of the mysterious squid.
Even as pure scientists, they understood the importance of affordability of healthcare and the power each little vial contains.
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The science produced was subsequently vindicated, even though the scientists were embarrassed for having their humanity made the topic of discussion.
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Nevertheless, he writes with enough direct knowledge and insight to convince us that even the greatest scientists are also touchingly human.
Some scientists even want to create entire new life forms from scratch.
Vertex, instead, takes a machine-gun approach, designing thousands of compounds to test them against hundreds of potentially disease-causing proteins--all at once, and before scientists even know which protein might be a good target or which compound might actually work.
Journalists seeking balancing perspectives sometimes do not even interview corporate scientists, or if they do, they relegate their comments to the back end of their piece to signal to the reader that they do not take industry views as highly credible.
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Once most scientists agree that the rival theory should replace the old paradigm, a paradigm shift has occurred, even though some individual scientists may remain intransigent and continue to noisily defend the old paradigm.
Scientists might even have time to produce drugs and vaccines to resist the worst threats.
Most scientists, even those with no interest in personal publicity, are vigorous advocates for their own work.
And the constant scrutiny is likely to make it even harder for FDA scientists to do their jobs.
Journalists, scientists and even mission-control operators milled about, waiting for the faint dial tone that would tell them Messenger had made it safely.
They say that the publishers are too mean to open the online versions of their journals and their archives to non-subscribers, denying scientists an even wider audience.
Medtronic made clear that it was seeking the truth and was willing to have others review the data even as its own scientists were doing the same.
High speed proton collisions generate a range of even smaller particles that scientists have been sifting through in search of a signal in the data suggesting the existence of the Higgs boson.
Earlier this year the South Korean government went one step further when it set up a task force comprising of scientists and even a science fiction writer to draft a "Robot Ethics Charter" by April.
The latest research, published in the journal Nature, not only offers an explanation for the "hormone disrupting" effects noticed in other studies - but may even offer ways for scientists to counteract dioxin exposure in future.
Yet until a few decades ago, the form and function of this crucial communications network remained elusive to scientists, even as it became clear that it held the key to critical mysteries in pharmacology and medicine.
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