Sentences with phrase «as general science»

Becky Oskin covers Earth science, climate change and space, as well as general science topics.

Becky Oskin covers Earth science, climate change and space, as well as general science topics.

For example, NASA's Earth Science program is classified under the Space function, even though its R&D is also closely related to natural resources and environment, as well as general science, while NASA's Aeronautics program is classified under the Transportation function.

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In the pages of the scientific journal Physics in Canada in 2010, Eric Vogt, director emeritus of the TRIUMF nuclear accelerator at the University of British Columbia, described General Fusion as «unproven science masquerading as achievable technology.»

Rometty is no exception: She came to Big Blue as a systems engineer in 1981 after graduating from Northwestern with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering at Northwestern and doing a two year stint at the General Motors Institute (a condition of her college scholarship).

He flunked out, he says, of honours chemistry at McGill, and after graduating with a general science degree, worked for a while at Shell Oil as a business analyst.

General Electric recently used Vine to encourage people to «pack as much science as you can» into a six - second video.

But while those suffering severe memory problems are obviously the first contenders for treatment with devices of this type, Science Alert also notes that these findings are part of a more general push toward performance - boosting brain implants that may soon be used by the healthy as well as the impaired.

The Order of Canada recipient characterizes General Fusion's lab as «Cloud Cuckooland» and «unproven science in the guise of technology development.»

As well as being highly skeptical of the science behind General Fusion's designs, Vogt is critical of the way the company received financing from SDTC, claiming it ducked the normal process of receiving government fundinAs well as being highly skeptical of the science behind General Fusion's designs, Vogt is critical of the way the company received financing from SDTC, claiming it ducked the normal process of receiving government fundinas being highly skeptical of the science behind General Fusion's designs, Vogt is critical of the way the company received financing from SDTC, claiming it ducked the normal process of receiving government funding.

«As far as we know, there is nothing out there that is as fast,» said Satoshi Sekiguchi, a director general at Japan «s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, where the computer will be builAs far as we know, there is nothing out there that is as fast,» said Satoshi Sekiguchi, a director general at Japan «s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, where the computer will be builas we know, there is nothing out there that is as fast,» said Satoshi Sekiguchi, a director general at Japan «s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, where the computer will be builas fast,» said Satoshi Sekiguchi, a director general at Japan «s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, where the computer will be built.

Jantoon earned his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Business Administration as well as his Master in International Management by CEMS at Rotterdam School of Management and HEC, Paris, respectively, and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School's GMP15 (General Management Program).

As used in science, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomenAs used in science, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomenas a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.

This more general science is traditionally known as the philosophy of nature.

A general failure to understand science also leaves kids less able to pursue other related fields that rely on appreciation of the scientific method as well as critical thinking.

As I learned more about the history, the bible, science and humanity in general, I found I could no longer say I believed the bible was inerrant and stay honest with myself.

Still further reflection shows that it is not science alone but education in general as it is now institutionalized that widens the gap between the rich and the poor.

But before expressing this belief, Fr Holloway makes a general remark about the nature of scientific knowledge which may serve as an introduction to Polanyi's refutation of Scientific Positivism and his proposal that science is Personal Knowledge: «It is most significant that here, as so very often in the discoveries of science, it was not the inductive data which was the real beginning of the breakthrough in knowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final proof.»

As used in science, however, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomenAs used in science, however, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomenas a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.

This is just as true for faith, science, and morality in general.

Misleadingly, many scientists and historians have emphasized this incident as indicative of the general relationship of the new science and Christianity.

Wow Correctlycenter, you really need to back to school as it's clear you have zero understanding of evolution or of science in general.

My own view of all of this, as a practicing social scientist interested in the relationship between religious faith and empirical science, is that the general perspective taken by Evans - Pritchard, Douglas, and the Turners is not only entirely reasonable but close to the best account we might give.

Likewise, to varying degrees, for things like, psychics, homeopathic «medicine», creationism / ID in science classes, reproductive choice, anti-vaccination, religious conflict in general, the US being or founded as a Christian nation, blue laws, UFOs (in the visiting aliens sense), etc..

As a medical professional, one would think you'd understand that biological evolution, much like general relativity, quantum mechanics, the germ theory of disease, cell theory, plate tectonic theory, etc is a scientific theory and should be taught in science class based on the preponderance of evidence that backs it.

Even as science seeks theories of high generality, so in his metaphysics «Whitehead is trying to find a scheme of the highest order of generality made up of more general notions than those found in any of the sciences — notions which are applicable to every kind of experience» (PW 30/22).

The realm of eternal objects is properly described as a «realm,» because each eternal object has its status in this general systematic complex of mutual relatedness (Science and the Modern World 231).

If you get a general notion of what is meant by perishing, you will have accomplished an apprehension of what you mean by memory and causality, what you mean when you feel that what we are is of infinite importance, because as we perish we are immortal — Essays in Science and Philosophy 117.

Regarding science as a religion, I can see this use in the most general sense, but I know of no scientists who pray to their experiments.

[19] His writings are justly described as having an epochal place in social science, and in general I find myself in agreement with his theses, to the extent that I can grasp them.

As being can never be studied as an independent object, the history of metaphysical thought can not be without implications for the history of being:» [E] very science goes through a process of historical development in which, although the fundamental or general problem remains unaltered, the particular form in which this problem presents itself changes from time to time; and the general problem never arises in its pure or abstract form, but always in the particular or concrete form, determined by the present state of knowledge or, in other words, by the development of thought hithertAs being can never be studied as an independent object, the history of metaphysical thought can not be without implications for the history of being:» [E] very science goes through a process of historical development in which, although the fundamental or general problem remains unaltered, the particular form in which this problem presents itself changes from time to time; and the general problem never arises in its pure or abstract form, but always in the particular or concrete form, determined by the present state of knowledge or, in other words, by the development of thought hithertas an independent object, the history of metaphysical thought can not be without implications for the history of being:» [E] very science goes through a process of historical development in which, although the fundamental or general problem remains unaltered, the particular form in which this problem presents itself changes from time to time; and the general problem never arises in its pure or abstract form, but always in the particular or concrete form, determined by the present state of knowledge or, in other words, by the development of thought hitherto.

Neither should we choose any of the numerous works in which Whitehead establishes mathematics as derivative from the abstract theory of classes or intuitive set theory, because in these works he acknowledges the paradoxes in set theory that drove him to affirm for a time Russell's logistic thesis that mathematics is the «science concerned with the logical deduction of consequences from the general premises of all reasoning» (MAT 291).

For example, after trying a number of definitions of mathematics, Whitehead settled in that article on Russell's definition of mathematics as the «science concerned with the logical deduction of consequences from the general premises of all reasoning» (MAT 291), In fact, the article «Mathematics» is the most accessible, most approving and best summary of Principia Mathematica ever done by Whitehead.

Much has been written about science and religion in general, but little has appeared to help scientists find Christian meaning in their jobs as scientists.

A general review of the endnotes from Gunter's paper reveals a fair number of sources who will corroborate the claim that Bergson's scientific views are nor only not outdated, but go very» much to the heart of current scientific methods and insights, but particularly, see A. C. Papanicolaou and Pete A. N. Gunter, eds., Bergson in Modern Thought Towards a Unified Science (New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987), and for important background on how Bergson came to be seen as dated when he was not, see also, Milic Capek, Bergson and Modern Physics, (cited above) and The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1961), and the volume edited by Gunter, Bergson and the Evolution of Physics (cited above).

If we are not satisfied with what our current practice, science, and philosophy have to say about such a topic as space and place, can we propose an alternative that is more general, more coherent, more potentially effective in practice?

But surely she knows that there have been many other Darwinians, from Thomas Henry Huxley in Darwin's day to Richard Dawkins today, who have gone beyond the boundaries of pure science and used «Darwinism» as a metaphysical stick with which to beat theism in general and Christianity in particular.

But believing in the Bible as a fact of the Universe is a good sign that the person doesn't know much of history, comparative religion, philosophy or science in general.

The elaborate disciplinary development of economics as the study of the market seemed to have turned it into an entirely autonomous science about which Christians in general could have nothing to say.

Maybe you should go to a book store instead and visit the science section... think of it as doing this country and humanity in general a huge favor.

Given Whitehead's general principle of reciprocity (of the interconnectedness of all things) we are more than justified in concluding that nature possesses structures analogous to those which we find present in mind (though the exact nature of those structures must remain open to particular investigation, that is, they must be discovered through specialized modes of inquiry such as those of the special sciences).

In addition to the phrasing of B.I.h, with its echo of the Shelley quotation, B.I.e, «General dynamics and the principle of least action,» reminds one, by anticipation, of the role Maupertius will play as hero of «victorious analysis» in Science and the Modern World.

whole is, is not a question for the natural sciences as such at all, but a question for ontology within a general philosophy of man.

The third possibility will be favored by those who make their own the anterior existential decision, which — as even Bultmann admits — was imported from Greek thought at the beginning of Western science, and on which that science is largely based even today — viz., the existential decision that the individual is no more than a specific instance of a general cosmic law and order which is capable of being expressed in a terminology which is at bottom quite simple and which is detachable from existence.

Furthermore, science is interested in repeatable events, reducible to general laws; it has no interest in that which is individual or unique, except as an instance of general laws.

He upholds equally the role of reason in other areas, such as metaphysics and ethics, and suggests that use of intelligence in science develops self - discipline and understanding of rational procedures in general.

Respect for truth and respect for persons as part of the general social tradition are needed for science to survive.4

The electronic age with its offering of a wide variety of ways to present the human voice has commanded new attention to oral language.1 Perhaps the ascendancy of science and the domination of the scientific method has created such a restricted view of language that a reaction in favor of more dimensions to language is to be taken simply as clear testimony to a general degeneration of meaningful discourse, a degeneration in which the church figures prominently.

The world students» design - science revolution may possibly result in a general reorientation of world society's awareness, common sense, and intelligence which, just «in the nick of time,» will bring mankind into conscious promulgation of the do - more - with - lessing invention revolution to be applied directly to gaining man's living advantage, which can accomplish the 100 percent physical success of all humanity in less than one - half the time it would take to occur only as the inadvertent by - product of further weapons detouring of human initiative.

I will agree with CJAs point that Catholics do in general accept the established theories of science as God's plan for the ordering of the world.