A scientific secret is something that some other scientist can't contribute to, any more than he can profit by it.

"But how can we find the answer to that scientific secret in sufficient time?"

They had read there that he knew nothing of the supposed scientific secret, that it was all a fake.

They, however, could not care less about military intelligence; they wanted economic and scientific secrets.

"The Newton who disappeared had scientific secrets supposed to be worth billions!"

"Those men said something about a Newton who had discovered great scientific secrets!"

We cast him into a state of suspended animation by filling his cave with a gas whose scientific secret I had discovered.

Did it contain any scientific secrets or other valuable information?

Today the only legal restriction on free emigration is knowledge of official or scientific "secrets."

"As if we would have any interest in your pathetic little scientific secrets," Q said scornfully.