Sentences with phrase «against common wisdom»

Against common wisdom even the adult and aging brain can generate new neurons from a population of resident stem cells but it does so only in two privileged regions and on a minute scale.

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Through dialogue undertaken in a common quest for wisdom, participants will consider these more fundamental questions against the background of transcendent commitments and a common recognition of the priority of first things.
It was that message, the «word of the cross» preached by Paul, that struck both Jews and Gentiles as scandalous foolishness, as an offense against both the wisdom of the educated and the common sense of ordinary people.
«This is completely against the established common wisdom of how to go to Mars, which is a straight shot to Mars, carry everything with you,» de Weck says.
The common weight loss strategy of «burn more calories than you take in» will fail 95 % of you in the long term, simply because this goes against your body's natural wisdom.
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