Sentences with phrase «advance of human civilization»

We will do our best to deliver the maximum contribution toward the peaceful development of society and the advance of human civilization.

Not exact matches

Most of us instinctively assume that technology relentlessly marches forward, but there have been times before now in human history — after the Egyptians built the Pyramids, for instance, or after the multiple advances of the Roman Empire — when the civilizations that followed could no longer do what had been done before, and perhaps there's a complacency and arrogance in assuming that this won't happen again.

If something catastrophic happens to Earth, we lose billions of years of evolution and thousands of years of advanced human civilization.

It is universally recognized that the long story from our earliest remains of human life onward through the great civilizations of the ancient east witnessed remarkable advances.

Part of the cost we pay as citizens and people trying to advance our civilization is the burden of looking out for all the other humans as well.

Long before the space age, humans looking at Mars thought they saw evidence for the presence of water, in the form of giant canals built by some very advanced, very thirsty civilization.

Subsequent limited independence of the environment, with technical advance, allows human aggregations of a permanent nature and that increasing complexity of organization which we call civilization.

«Prometheus,» which generated $ 403.3 million at the worldwide box office, followed scientists aboard the spaceship Prometheus who discovered the remains of an advanced civilization developing weapons that could wipe out the human race.

If you find one of the coins you need to advance, the game can not just give you a bell or jingle, Scrooge has to stand there and talk about some ancient civilization that sounds just like our human civilization, but they add the words duck or quack to the name.

The game is set in the distant future, where the world is ruled by intelligent animal - like forms that evolved from the machines responsible for the fall of an advanced human civilization centuries ago; the former rulers of the world survived, but their lifestyle was reduced to that of primitive, isolated tribes.

Designed by Will Wright, the creator of SimCity and The Sims, Spore was supposed to simulate the evolution of life, from single - celled organisms to small creatures to tribal human societies to an advanced civilization exploring outer space.

More importantly, in my opinion, there are hundreds of millions of human beings on Earth who desperately and urgently need MORE energy — particularly access to electricity, which millions have never had — if they are to have any hope of participating in what readers of this blog like to think of as «advanced civilization».

Still the key point is there were several varieties of human species — Neanderthals, Denisovans among us — in the world 100,000 years ago and it isn't at all clear that any of the other species would have made the advance to a technological civilization.

were he alive today, 200 years after formulating his terrifyingly accurate insight into the relationship between populations and resources, malthus would both chuckle at the stratospheric advances of industrial civilization, and weep that nothing at all has occurred to change his essential understanding of the human condition.

Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization.

Rather, we need to create a new clean energy economy in the same way we created our information economy: by identifying a set of well - defined technical problems and mobilizing the human resources of our technologically advanced civilization — our scientists, laboratories, universities, and engineers — to solve them.

Founded in 1990 in Santa Fe, New Mexico by social entrepreneurs Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons, Bioneers advances the great transformation underway in human civilization by serving as a seed head for game - changing social and scientific vision, knowledge and practices that honor the genius of nature and human ingenuity.