pure science

Lysenko benefited from Stalin’s suspicion of and hostility toward scientific experts, whom his henchmen denigrated as “enemies of the people” for their defense of “pure science for the sake of science.”

"That’s a good question. It's the most difficult sport because it is the interaction between man and machine, and the development is pure science," Wolff says.

From medicine, we want pure science, but what we get is a complicated tangle of guesswork and certainty, tried-and-true and trial-and-error.

Quite to the contrary, the film reaches moments of ecstatic joy when it is allowed to slough off politics like a snake shedding unwanted dead skin, and instead focus on pure science.

After reading a story about a young woman who had become a coder, she began to wonder if she could switch careers but was sceptical about working in tech when she had a pure science background.