"Now it is only an interesting scientific idea," he said.

As for scientific ideas having to be translated into technology, why is this a necessary condition?

For a scientific idea to be accepted, three conditions must obtain.

That's why so few scientific ideas are really new; they're just waiting to satisfy all the conditions.

They point out that this harmonizes with the scientific idea of the relationship between matter and energy.

It is often difficult to name new scientific ideas, especially when they are related to an existing paradigm.

Byzantine medicine was based on common sense rather than scientific ideas.

This gave him some limited opportunity to publish his scientific ideas.

Why, then, should his scientific ideas excite such interest today?

Yet many a scientific idea had first surfaced in a dream of the researcher.