Meanings
- InternetUsed to express gratitude or relief.
Thank science for UK production monarch DJ Deekline.
2010, Stuart Evans, Billion Dollar House Party review, Drum Media, 30 September 2010, page 282 more examples
The remorseless would-be bomber of Times Square, Faisal Shahzad, left his suburban life with a wife and young children to train at a terrorist camp in Pakistan and to learn (not very well, thank science!) how to make car bombs.
2010 October, Tristan Dickison, “Godfucked”, in Cipher, Colorado College, page 30“And there's a blast door I can close behind us. Thank Science.”
2012, Denise Rossetti, The Dark Rose, Berkley, →ISBN
Origin
Constructed as a secular alternative to thank God, with the intent of emphasizing that modern conveniences are the product of human sciences such as engineering, medicine, etc., rather than divine action.
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