What a joy it was to see science, for once, in the service of something useful.

"We'll sit down and see what might be available in economic, science, cultural, education areas that would add to it," the official said.

"I see science as a social contract," she said over coffee in Berkeley.

Many high school students see science and technology as too difficult.

Now some educators are trying to help children see science for what it really is, a way of thinking.

"But instead of these big dramatic moments, you could actually see science happening."

This made me think carefully about seeing science in black and white terms.

"We want to get kids excited, so they'll see science as a rich field waiting to be discovered," he said.

It was a time when we saw science as the hope of the world.

The modern period saw "social science" first used as a distinct conceptual field.