The ultimate outcome, the scientists confidently declared, was a truly irreproducible number.

"It will be bad enough," declared the gloomy scientist, and he seemed to find pleasure in his announcement.

But the victory that scientists declared over the hyacinth in the late 1990's has proved premature.

"Son, you've licked one of your biggest problems," the elder scientist declared.

It was not long before other scientists and philosophers triumphantly declared that God was dead.

The man shows himself to be some sort of mad scientist declaring, "So, it's food you want!?

Yet, with remarkable chutzpa, the mad scientists of Chicago declared success.

"Here's a climate conundrum: while scientists declared 2010 to be the hottest year on record"

There, scientists who examined it declared that it was a giant squid-one of the largest ever found.

India's nuclear scientists have recently declared that India can go ahead and sign the test-ban treaty without damaging its weapons program.