When tasked with writing about that most significant of terms—science—the mind stumbles to contain its conceptual expanse. But as I considered the many potential tacks for this essay, my mind kept coming back, as it often does, to those songs that, in the course of a few minutes, get right to the heart of the matter. Songs that conjure the biopolitics, the abstractions, and algorithmic imperatives that have made their way in, that broach the force of numbers and the sway of enumeration and offer a fleeting glimpse of the searing presence of systematicity both within and without. Science, as the children’s song would have it, has become a “a part of our everyday lives.”