Sentences with phrase «about human limits»

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Which seems a little bit of a discouraging sign about the limits of human judgment, but ties in nicely with the final and perhaps simplest tip.

While most of us care enough about our fellow human beings to want them to be sufficiently fed and housed, for entrepreneurs, hiring employees is both a necessary step for growth and a drain on the limited resources of small, growing companies.

This isn't a «distraction,» but gets right at core concerns about Trump and his ability to govern — the Daniels story is one of many warnings that suggest Trump believes that laws and policies that limit the behavior of ordinary humans simply don't apply to him.

The mythical friend Gabriel was the mythical friend of Jesus the Messaih accompanying him all time as per the Quran readings... this mythical friend is the right hand for God and was sent to nearly all messengers of God to deliver teachings from God to his messengers and Gabriel is the only Angel that has minimum number of wings reaching the sixth heaven as a limit... as per my readings and narrow knowledge... Reality you are playin with fire here show respect even if you are agnostic about all as you are only human and do not know the unknown of see the unseen or touch the untouched or feel the unfelt because even when you are alone you are not alone.

The current rate of burning fossil fuels adds about 2 ppm per year to the atmosphere, so that getting from the current level to 1000 ppm would take about 300 years — and 1000 ppm is still less than what most plants would prefer, and much less than either the nasa or the Navy limit for human beings.

Even though our images of totally committed, self - sacrificing, lifelong love are invariably limited to our taste of that kind of love through our human parents, they are still the best images we have and about the best we can manage in thinking about God.

As in even the most intimate of human relations there are facts for psychologists to discover and use towards man's self - understanding, so there is no limit to what may be found out about what happens in prayer.

Cartesians — taking the theologically grounded refusal to believe in spirits or worry about the influence of final causes to some sort of plausible limit — believed that «animals» were insentient, and that only humans had goals or thoughts or feelings.

The recognition of the limits of language and human knowledge when we speak about the divine is at the same time an affirmation of the mystery of God.

Although at the time there was only limited Jewish speculation about the Messiah, Jewish expectations of the Messiah were very varied.2 The predominant view was that the Messiah would be a human and earthly deliverer and not a divine figure.

For Whitehead, this importance is not limited to issues of human morality, although he is keenly concerned about these.

Mechanism, for instance, began as a limited theory about the structure of matter, and was subsequently extrapolated throughout the range of human experience.

From a limited, bitter satire, Archibald MacLeish's verse drama grew into a larger, poetic statement about the human condition.

When all allowance has been made for these limiting factors — the chances of oral transmission, the effect of translation, the interest of teachers in making the sayings «contemporary,» and simple human fallibility — it remains that the first three gospels offer a body of sayings on the whole so consistent, so coherent, and withal so distinctive in manner, style content, that no reasonable critic should doubt, whatever reservations he may have about individual sayings, that we find reflected here the thought of a single, unique teacher.

Conflicts of doctrine about human nature between investigators in different disciplines must then be ascribed to errors in inquiry, or to an epistemological imperialism that arbitrarily limits the admissible perspectives, or to an incorrect analysis of the relation of the several perspectives to one another.

In addition to his sense of the sacred, Camus's sense of the limits of human reason and justice is worthy of serious attention for its incipient natural law approach combined with a sober prudence about how far even the best human intentions can be trusted.

Important questions are raised about the limits of human creativity and they're (finally!)

Consequently no statement can be made about anything in him, about one component in the plurality of his essential constitution, which can be quite without significance for the rest of him, nor could any statement be adequate even in a limited way, unless its actual precise meaning were drawn from its relation to the one human being in his unity.

Since I left print journalism to study theology two decades ago, I've thought a great deal about the limits and possibilities of words - especially when we try to navigate the spiritual territory of human life.

-- the question still remains: starting as we must with our limited human experience, what is the road our thoughts ought to travel out toward the truth about God?

If we think at all about life's underlying reality, we have to think in limited human terms.

Analogous to this are also feelings, consciousness, and intentions, which the child initially attributes to all beings and eventually limits to animals and humans; typically, as the previous statements about passivity and self - movement indicate, feelings, consciousness, and intentions are explicitly taken away from «things.»

We debate endlessly about Peace, Democracy, the Rights of Man, the conditions of racial and individual eugenics, the value and morality of scientific research pushed to the uttermost limit, and the true nature of the Kingdom of God; but here again, how can we fail to see that each of these inescapable questions has two aspects, and therefore two answers, according to whether we regard the human species as culminating in the individual or as pursuing a collective course towards higher levels of complexity and consciousness?

Practices are human activities: «activities» is used in a limited, technical way here and one needs to be careful about what one reads into it and infers from it.

@World..., I'm still trying to reconcile the statement,»... atheists want to take a limited 2000 or so year old childish concept of God and refute it...» with «Nothing has ever changed about God, just human ability to fully perceive and understand IT...» What is the «limited 2000... year old» concept of God that atheists want to refute and how is it different from the current concept of God.

Our subconscious understanding of the laws of physics and the natural laws He has set forth to allow our existence to come about can not be observed, and to say that He is flawed because we see disease is viewing things from a very limited point of view, that being a living human being with an aversion to disease and loss of health.

And when this limit, which is God's honor, is reached by man, there is a twofold temptation, either on the one side to pass the limit, to take up God's cause, to try to avenge God's honor oneself, to use political means in the service of the living God in order to do this, or on the other side to remain within the limit but to continue political action as though it did not exist, in other words, to separate the two kingdoms, to argue that while God's honor is there at the limit of politics, and I can do nothing about it, nevertheless in my own sphere I can still act like a shrewd and effective man, pursuing politics to save what can be saved by human means.

I will have to remember that little gem, «There will be other people out there who haven't been brought up with such limited expectations for a book full of human experience and wisdom and varied ideas about God, alienation and redemption through love.»

It's too much to talk about all that here, so I will limit my discussion to how Ava, the robot, seduces and basically destroys Caleb, who was chosen by Nathan, his employer, to interact with her to see if she passes the Turing test, which examines if a machine has consciousness and is indistinguishable from a human.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

Limits and rules were literally made to be crossed and broken because that's how we, as humans, learn about consequences and accountability.

Based on the amounts being found in people and what is known about the metabolism of bisphenol A from animal experiments, it also appears that human exposures are above the current U.S. safety limit, according to the assessment.

For the limited scope of this study, which is to connect neuroscience with political theory and policy - making, I will focus especially on those findings that challenge long - held assumptions about human nature.

Indeed, the limited assumptions Locke made about human attributes gave his work significant longevity and influence politically.

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Tom Kirkwood of Newcastle University, UK, disagrees with the idea of a limit to human lifespan: «The idea does not really fit what we already know about the biology of the ageing process.

Given that the world population is still growing by about 200,000 people a day, and the ecological footprint of the human race already lies beyond the limits of sustainability, fewer European mega-consumers will be a blessing for the health of the planet — and fewer North Americans would...

Without that information or long - term use studies, consumers have limited information about the potential dangers for human health and the environment, he said.

The U.N. declaration calls for action on multiple fronts, including slashing the use of antibiotics to promote growth in farm animals, limiting their use among humans to only when they are truly necessary and ramping up education about these issues.

Even with the limited number of subjects, the human research has already confirmed the monkey findings and answered important questions about how the brain works.

An alien civilization curious about the lifestyle of humans shouldn't limit itself to studying celebrities.

According to one of its lead authors, the report will say that to limit global warming to 2 °C, we must keep CO2 emissions from all human sources since the start of the Industrial Revolution to below about a trillion tonnes of carbon.

Andrew Revkin is the author of The New York Times blog, «Dot Earth», about «efforts to balance human affairs with the planet's limits.»

While Joffe has deeply conflicted feelings about disturbing human remains, he says he's come to believe — as many rabbis also have — that the historical value of limited investigations like those at the Reinhard camps helps outweigh the drawbacks.

Questions about how massive stars function, the possibility of life on other planets, human significance, and human resourcefulness are inevitably broached, and people must consider what these topics might say about the purpose of billions of stars, the relationship between humans and non-human species, and limits of science.

Although increasing illumination was more common in MPAs associated with human activity, even those designated as strict nature reserves or wilderness areas, which have limited human intrusion, experienced increasing light — about 9 % are experiencing increases in artificial light intensity, the team reports online before print in Conservation Letters.

This is the so - called hard problem of neuroscience, and it lies at the outer limit of what material explanations will say about the experience of being human.

That's the handiwork of another MacCready who happens to inhabit the same body: the sky's - the - limit inventor who parlayed a preternatural talent with model planes into Da Vinci - like human - and solar - powered vehicles that shattered the world's notion of the limitations of such machines, the passionate naturalist who gets teary - eyed talking about the monarch butterfly and the sooty tern, the easygoing fellow who accessorizes his blazer, tie, and gray slacks outfit with black sneakers.

Scientists know the virus has a limited ability to spread from person to person, but they aren't sure about the path it took to reach its first human victims.

Earlier this year, scientists at University of California, Los Angeles, and Advanced Cell Technology of Marlborough, Massachusetts, reported in The Lancet about the safe and successful use of RPE cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, rather than iPS cells, to treat a different type of AMD in a limited number of human patients.