Both science and magic had failed; all they could do was leave the baby alone.
But if science fails, I will continue to wonder, who will redeem my son?
"If the science fails," he replied, "the damnfoolishness may work."
Critics might propose that science of morality fails to answer the question "even having defined good, why do it?"
For centuries science has sought answers to our dilemma and failed.
The social sciences studied during training have entirely failed to provide teachers with a new working vocabulary.
Of course, one could also argue that the science simply failed in the court of ideas.
Had science failed utterly, we would have observed a marked increase in cancer deaths.
First, the book argues that the social sciences have failed as science.
In the process, he's learning that even when hope and science fail us, art survives.