Sentences with phrase «about abandoning an idea»

Kauffman has no qualms about abandoning an idea that has dominated the sciences since the days of Galileo: that a set of physical laws is all that is needed to predict the unfolding of reality.

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According to Reuters «ideas about binding commitments to extend the Toronto debt reduction goals at a summit hosted by Canada in 2010, sought by Germany first and foremost, have been abandoned» Mr. Harper and Mr. Flaherty would appear to be still living in the Toronto Summit, while the rest of the G - 20, except perhaps Germany, has moved on to confront more pressing issues, including the growing risks of global instability and the need to strengthen growth and job creation.

Taking down these abandoned houses is a great idea, but there's no need to been unsafe about it.

Abandoning a belief in God will cause some resentment towards those who have been telling you about God, sharing the idea of «God» with you, and participating in «church» or «prayer.»

Philosophers have largely abandoned the expectation of discovering a single system of ideas that will contain the ultimate truth about nature, man, cognition, and values.

One should not in this connection let himself be deceived by the observation that the abstract thinking of the Greeks made it possible for them to understand in its purity the essence of the spiritual, and that therefore mythological, anthropomorphic ideas of God were abandoned by the Greeks, while in Judaism naïve mythological and anthropomorphic expressions about God, although they decrease, do not by any means disappear.

So much has changed in the world, so many older beliefs and ideas have been abandoned or if not abandoned then gravely doubted, so much of our modern way of living appears to make prayer unintelligible, that they are puzzled about the whole enterprise.

We do not go about saying that there is another defeat for science, because its old ideas have been abandoned.

What words, phrases and ideas do we need to abandon so we can talk about God without it being weird?

He explained their discussion about the idea of abandoning the practice of cross party endorsements, because of the abuses stemming from the «Wilson - Pakula» that empowers Party Chairpersons to place members of other parties on their own party's ballot.

These findings are forcing physicists to abandon their most cherished ideas about neutrinos: that they have no mass and can travel through space at the speed of light.

But the new data showing that a large fraction of epigenetic signatures of ethnicity reflect something other than ancestry suggests that abandoning the idea of race and ethnicity altogether could sacrifice a lot of valuable information about the drivers of differences in health and disease between different communities.

The standard ideas of the 1980s about the shape and history of the Universe have now been abandoned — and cosmologists are now taking seriously the possibility that the Universe is pervaded by some sort of vacuum energy, whose origin is not at all understood.»

The whole forceful, multilayered idea that this movie is not only about the best time in one's life, but also of the times, has a way of sabotaging it, for no matter how well Brewer is able to reimagine Ren's gymnast - on - a-rampage booty - shaking in an abandoned warehouse, or resurrect familiar streamers and confetti for one last swinging barnburner, he can't fully convince you that he's crafted something for the current youth of America.

While there was talk about The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 being converted to 3D, the idea was eventually abandoned.

Loving Vincent Directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman Writer - director Dorota Kobiela had to abandon her first ideas about how to animate the story of a man who delves into the life and death of Vincent van Gogh.

In fact, it was during World War I that a Sunday school teacher named Gertrude Chandler Warner first got the idea for a series of stories about four orphan children who live together in an abandoned boxcar.

More importantly while Marching Cubes is an interesting system, it's one of those things fresh developers love to chat about actually using before abandoning the idea for a variety of reasons.

With Hearthstone being as popular as it is though, the devs were worried about people hacking data packets and ultimately abandoned the idea altogether.

If such assessment was made about a regular, multi-platform publisher, the idea would surely have been abandoned — however, since it was, in a way, a very prestigious project that was eagerly anticipated by a small, albeit quite important group of dedicated players, the work was eventually carried through, and the players got an amazing, absolutely unique game, the production of which was only motivated with the need to have extraordinary games available for PlayStation — otherwise, it would have been nothing more than a super-modest indie game.

Valentine talks about collecting in the way many artists talk about phases of their career — an idea or movement catches his attention, he dives into it fully, embraces it, explores it, and then gets caught up in a new idea, abandoning the old one with minimal regret.

He felt ideas about component parts had been abandoned erroneously by the AbEx artists, who replaced pictorial organization with spontaneous gesture.

The thing about Rapp's book is that he was fairly careful to cite most things in Chapter 1 EXCEPT Wegman (with small lapses) but the copy and paste from Wegman is extensive and uncited which is why Eli is not completely abandoning the idea that Wegman copied from Rapp with permission.

Why this matters: Whenever software is about to be abandoned it's always a good idea to move away from it — or at least start planning to.