Should I leave such a lacuna and present my herbarium to the Museum of Hamburg, without the boryana variabilis? The record of the first appears likely to be lost in the lacuna of 934 AH. The word is derived from lacuna, a cavity or hollow, a blank, hiatus or gap. Here there is a lacuna of sixteen short lines in the inscription.
Science is an integral part of our everyday life. But why is science so important to us and to the way in which we live? Without science we would be missing out on a multitude of different inventions and knowledge that have helped us to progress in life and learn about our world.
Modern science is distinct in its approach and successful in its results: 'modern science' now defines what science is in the strictest sense of the term. Science in its original sense is a word for a type of knowledge, rather than a specialized word for the pursuit of such knowledge. In particular it is one of the types of knowledge which people can communicate to each other and share.