Sentences with phrase «as curiosities in»
For 150 years or so the soybean languished as a curiosity in gardens.
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As The Economist noted in a recent feature, it may become no more than a novelty or a historical curiosity.
Get a behind the scenes look a the tension, anticipation and exhilaration experienced by scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. during the Curiosity rover's harrowing descent through the Martian atmosphere — known as «Seven Minutes of Terror.»
His book not only helped answer those questions for my teenage self, but also instilled in me new curiosities, such as «Is there a theory of everything?»
Asking questions during an interview can be an essential opportunity to get insider information about the program, as well as demonstrate interest, curiosity, and enthusiasm to your interviewer, writes Brian Precious, author of «Get In, Get Connected, Get Hired: Lessons from an MBA Insider.»
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley (ms), Citigroup, and UBS Group are exploring the use of artificial intelligence software to judge applicants on traits — such as teamwork, curiosity, and grit — that help in the workplace but don't always show up on a resume or come through in an interview.
«In Canada as in the U.S. and Europe, the most common question investment consultants are asked by clients about ESG is whether an ESG - based approach will negatively impact investment performance,» said Andrew Sweeney, Institutional Portfolio Manager at RBC Global Asset Management Inc. «This and other data from the survey reveal a high level of interest and curiosity about responsible investing, including areas of significant uncertaintIn Canada as in the U.S. and Europe, the most common question investment consultants are asked by clients about ESG is whether an ESG - based approach will negatively impact investment performance,» said Andrew Sweeney, Institutional Portfolio Manager at RBC Global Asset Management Inc. «This and other data from the survey reveal a high level of interest and curiosity about responsible investing, including areas of significant uncertaintin the U.S. and Europe, the most common question investment consultants are asked by clients about ESG is whether an ESG - based approach will negatively impact investment performance,» said Andrew Sweeney, Institutional Portfolio Manager at RBC Global Asset Management Inc. «This and other data from the survey reveal a high level of interest and curiosity about responsible investing, including areas of significant uncertainty.
As molecular biologist Rana Dajani explains in a 2011 Nature editorial, the political and religious environment in most Arab states currently «fails to sustain creativity, curiosity and striking out into the unknown — all of which are essential for science to flourish.»
Take that thought a step further and you encounter the need to implement new processes and procedures as required. Inc.com calls this skill «curiosity» — a curiosity about what your competitors are doing, what technologies they're using and how other companies (both in your sector and outside it) are finding new customers.
As a Co-Founder of Airbnb, Gebbia often had to address issues that weren't design related on which he says, «Entrepreneurs should stick to 2 things in any situation: living life based on courage and curiosity.
In addition to the artworks, the Saxo Collection also features installations, objects and curiosities with an extraordinary appearance or significance as for instance «Catch Me Should I Fall», (2010) by Michael Elmgreen and Ingmar Dragset and Christian Lemmerz» «Lady Die» (2003 - 04).
I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..
Okay, here goes: You are engaging in a perceptual bias, a fallacious bit of reasoning, and you have no reasonable argument as to thinking some other species» mental idiocy to be significant in any way whatsoever beyond the mere biological curiosity of their neurological problems specific to them.
As you say: «In many cases doubt drives my curiosity to learn more.»
I must admit to some curiosity as to what you really meant in your post.
Fatima does not satisfy our curiosity in this way, just as Christian faith in general can not be reduced to an object of mere curiosity.
Now, in a community context, I can exercise my rights and freedoms, as well as my intellectual curiosity, at The Lasting Supper.
The Faith movement has this principle at the heart of its approach to the formation of young Catholics, seeking to foster an inquisitive approach to the faith, just as in the natural sciences, and to develop such intellectual curiosity within a theological framework that is faithful to Christ's Magisterium and to our understanding of the created universe.
I learned the n - word from my great - grandmother, a sweet, churchgoing lady who loved Jesus and read her Bible and, in the remote mountains of Appalachia, regarded the black man we saw at the ice cream shop that day as a fearful curiosity.
These three characteristics of our culture — interior restlessness, excessive curiosity and instability of purpose — are described in classical moral theology as the offspring of acedia.
Medieval writers saw a clear dichotomy of wonder as a humbling realisation of ignorance in the face of God's creation and curiosity as a rather more negative and aimless desire to uncover the secrets of nature.
Perhaps a sermon should be regarded as great, not because everyone in the congregation agrees with the preacher, but because at the end of the service those present just can't wait to talk about it; to debate it together, because the text around which it was built has captured their imagination and curiosity.
Among most Christians and Jews, it is fair to say, the Jewish - Christian dialogue is viewed as something of a curiosity carried on by people who are «interested in that kind of thing.»
These include the preacher's own appetite, interest, curiosity and passion, as magnets for those same capacities in those who listen.
Insofar as the individual agent desires to have his intellectual curiosity satisfied, he gains a measure of freedom in confronting the conclusion.
Whereas contemporary understanding envisions the curious person as open to knowledge, life, and new experiences in a kind of whimsical, impish, or carefree way, scholastic theologians saw curiosity as a wayward pursuit which impedes the studied application of the mind to worthy things.
Writing in Premier Youthwork magazine (November 2015) Rev Rachel Mann, a male to female transgender vicar, advised: «Perhaps the single most important thing to remember is that... trans people are, ultimately, people... Trans people of all ages are often seen through a lens that treats us as curiosities, freaks or alien people.
If you really enquire about God, not with mere curiosity, not, as it were, like a spiritual stamp - collector, but as an anxious seeker, distressed in heart, anguished by the possibility that God might not exist and hence all life be vanity and one great madness — if you ask in such a mood as the man who asks the doctor, «Tell me, will my wife live or will she die?»
It's just common, human nature to look, as well as, normal human reflexes to look out of first curiosity, and then feel very uncomfortable and try not to look knowing consciously in your mind what is taking place.
Just as mortality is inherited through Adam, so is Original Sin inherent in all babies because of his terrible sin of curiosity.
Given the theological cast of her writing, one might expect to find in her memoir a portrait of the artist as a young Jonathan Edwards — someone who (shortly before he went off to college) observed the curiosities of the flying spider, analyzed the optics of the rainbow, and then celebrated the glory of the creator as revealed in the natural creation.
1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymorAs a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymorAs a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymoras a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.
Most scientists are driven by intellectual curiosity and the desire to know, as much as by interest in practical applications.
It is the suggestiveness, the persuasive likenesses, the manifold make - believe of things as perceived that we are prey to, long before we are plagued by their secretiveness and our curiosity: they too «talk» to us in many tongues, and time and again are found out to have «lied» by «pretending» to be what they are not... [Then we seek to penetrated «behind» appearance — to a truth different from it in kind.
Pandora's curiosity in opening the box full of the world's sorrows is basically the same story as Eve, the Odyssey the story of what happens when the gods are angered, the Greek Hades a place where ironic punishments are given to those who have defied gods.
As reverence love is and seeks knowledge of the other, not by way of curiosity nor for the sake of gaining power but in rejoicing and in wonder.
As they allow their curiosity to explore this and that hypothesis they rediscover the long - forgotten truth, and in that rediscovery faith is born again.
So, just out of curiosity, in your view is being Catholic just as bad as being an atheist where heaven and hell are concerned?
The good news is that they are going the way of the dinosaur themselves, and their museum to «Creation» in Kentucky, or whatever benighted state houses it, would make a wonderful zoo for the survivors, where they could be put on exhibit as anthropological curiosities.
Palmer ignores it because he believes that in order to account for the violent trajectory of objectivism, he must find exclusively egoistic motivation — idle curiosity and the desire for control — as the basic impetus behind it.
The holy places would be turned into museum pieces or archaeological curiosities, as they have been elsewhere in the ancient world, such as Turkey or Tunisia.
Apocalyptic withdrawal was corrected by rejecting immediate expectation of the end (21:8 b; Acts 1:6 - 7) and by substituting mission in the power of the Spirit for idle curiosity as to the time of the end (Acts 1:7 - 8).
The dominant motive which led to it was neither curiosity about the creation of the world nor philosophic interest, as in Greece, about the divine immateriality and interior unity, but faith that the social justice for which Yahweh stood would conquer.
They are family affections aroused in sex relations and in the nurture of children, intellectual curiosity leading to enjoyment in the interchange of ideas, and — as soon as large - scale societies arose — the practice of Commerce.
What I resent is that atheists have to be paraded in the media and categorized as some sort of weird curiosity.
We suspect that this search for alien life is driven not so much by intellectual curiosity as by the desire to feel that we're not alone in the universe.
But it's definitely possible to ignore some of the things we were good at as kids — vast imagination, insatiable curiosity and, yes, a willingness to confront the things that go bump in the night.
These questions lead to another, in some ways just as important: why is Meilaender's book such a curiosity?
When Columbus brought chile peppers to Europe from the Caribbean after his second voyage in 1493, they were first grown in monastery gardens in Spain and Portugual as curiosities.
While in theory the site started as a way for me to explore ideas and influences, your feed back and continued curiosity brings a component to the site I could have never imagined.