In its scientific zeal, the church adapted cathedrals across Europe, and a tower at the Vatican itself, so their darkened vaults could serve as solar observatories.

Their return for a traditional burial in the Arctic permafrost brings to a close a tragic and shameful tale of aboriginal people victimized by scientific zeal.

'Kolya, I bow to your scientific zeal.'

Sometimes his scientific zeal shaded into obsession, and his methods went from the empirical to the experimental in ways that remain ethically troubling.

So it's always encouraging to see someone reaching out to students with new and exciting methods of fostering scientific zeal.

For a time scientific zeal consumed the secretary, and the question of the plans remained in suspense.

In spite of all the prevailing horrors, we were left with enough sheer scientific zeal and adventurousness to wonder about the unknown realm beyond those mysterious mountains.

Hunter may well have carried scientific zeal to preposterous lengths, but he was the first to describe angina pectoris and sudden death.

It was only for a moment that I hesitated, for more than curiosity and scientific zeal was driving me on and working against my growing fear.

He claims that the German bomb program "was fatally crippled by lack of scientific zeal."