Sentences with phrase «about one's place in the universe»

«Science has faced challenges throughout history, from one administration to the next, but year in and year out it has led to human progress, enriching our culture by improving quality of life and human knowledge about our place in the universe,» Holt wrote.
He thus illustrates how these thinkers influenced Percy's exploration of man's inner confusion about his place in the universe: how the Stoic virtue of honorable endurance proper to Percy's Southern upbringing blossomed into the perception of divine intent revealed through the beauty of created things.
The exhibit illustrates what a solar eclipse is, simulates the eerie experience of an eclipse and explains how eclipses have altered our understanding about our place in the universe over time.
They were a Lutheran congregation dedicated to asking themselves hard questions about their place in the universe
«We know precious little about our place in the universe, except for one thing: we, and any existing cohort of civilisations, will appear as «first born» to anyone living in our universe a 100 billion years from now.
NASA's Great Observatories are cultural icons that have changed our views about our place in the universe.
A couple nights ago, Jessie and I were talking about our place in the universe, and the idea of «nothingness.»
The film is surprisingly spiritual, in fact, not simply an excuse for mayhem but a tale with genuine ideas about our place in the universe, our reliance upon others for our own karmic enlightenment, and how death is inherently even more ridiculous than life, no matter how grizly the end.
Science has faced challenges throughout history, from one administration to the next, but year in and year out it has led to human progress, enriching our culture by improving quality of life and human knowledge about our place in the universe.
When Galileo announced his observation of Jupiter's moons, his discovery challenged a deeply entrenched way of thinking about our place in the universe.
Visit the Kielder observatory to look deep into our solar system and learn what the science of astronomy can teach us about our place in the universe.
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