The social, intellectual, and practical aspects of science are interlocking and help to characterize the enterprise of science. Scientific work takes place within a community, and its results must measure up to the standards of that community. Another source discussing the sciences identifies universality as one of the most significant attribute of scientific knowledge.
Scientific truths transcends political, sociological, cultural, and linguistic factors.
For example, the scientific literature produced in one country can be used by the scientists of another country regardless of language or bibliographic differences. Such translations are useful, though, for academic pursuits. This passage appears in The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science vol. Thales, Pythagoras, Academy of Plato, academies of Alexandria. After the civil war ended, these natural philosophers decided to establish a formal constitution.