When an individual, often researchers and scientists themselves, gets very excited about or amazed at a scientific fact, new discovery, unexplained event or new theory.
Eg.
Person 1: did you hear about the discovery of Promachoteuthis Sulcus? I have a total science boner about it
person 2: yeah man I heard they've only ever found one
Person 1: dude it's awesome it's a squid with teeth like structures
Person 2: wow dude this could change the world of squid research
The result of a perception in which all naturally occurring phenomena will comply with each other in a discrete and static manner; (2) the process by which such phenomena are judged. See also: Scientific Method; (3) proof of such judgment; (4. v.) to take such judgment for granted, or, to apply it in practice.
1. "The sky is white!" "Well...Science says otherwise, for now."
2. "We used Science, e.g. verified the current hypothetical coefficients with reality."
3. Genetics provides a formal Science that supports the Theory of Evolution.
4. "Wanna build a robot?" "Fosho, let's science!"
Refers to a generation of society, born roughly around the death of grunge music, that refuses to believe anything that science tells them because it's too mainstream.
Science hipsters are the reason that we have people believe the earth is flat, and there is a 3rd option, besides male or female, to put on a birth certificate
I had to break up with Lisa. She kept telling me how the earth was flat and how She is going to let her baby choose her gender when it's old enough.
She is either stupid, or she is a science hipster.