2002, Helge Kragh, Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century, →ISBN:
Big money is not a sufficient, but it is a necessary condition for "big science;" therefore, it is not surprising that the big science era in physics coincided with the increase in government funding.
2007, Karen F. Greif, Jon F. Merz, Current Controversies in the Biological Sciences, →ISBN:
The HGP is the first genuine example of big science in the biological sciences, with an estimated original price tag of $3 billion.
2013, J. Agassi, Science and Culture, →ISBN, page 359:
Big science has replaced traditional science, which was little, and had little public concern. Today big science has new, exciting tasks. This should not be at the cost of a loss of little science. There is a need to revive and protect it, in order to insure the continued well-being of science as a whole. For this a new system is required, since the old one transformed into big science and is thus no longer adequate.
2014, W. Henry Lambright, Why Mars: NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration, →ISBN:
Much big science is concentrated in a single huge machine. But distributed big science in this case consists of missions (also called projects) that make up an extended, multidecadal program of exploration
