The beginnings of what Wes-terners thinks ofas science is most often attributed to the ancient Greeks. Ifanyone person is associated with this early science, that person is Aristotle. The ancient Greeks also are credited with the birth of the concept of leisure. Again the idea is linked to Aristotle. Yet in spite of this similarity, the two concepts have little in common as we progress into the 20th century. Science, after a thousand year dormancy during the Middle Ages, reappeared and matured into the most viable, if not the only, recognized source of new knowledge. Leisure also experienced a period of hibernation, but when it surfaced, leisure returned in a form which would not have been recognized by the Greeks who had best expressed it. Certainly, many Greek writings on science have been lost forever, but the basic ideas on scientific thought have been absorbed into contemporary thinking. Leisure, on the other hand, at least in the classical sense, no longer possesses its original identity. What had been perceived by Aristotle as the most human ofendeavors and the goal of life has been redefined as the period