Sentences with phrase «back by ignorance»

I hold little hope for humanity evolving much beyond this, as we will always be held back by ignorance.

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At first glance, Feuerbach's later theory looks like an elaboration of a view that goes back at least to the Roman poet Statius and was revived by Spinoza, Hobbes, Hume and others: that fear of the terrifying forces of nature first created the gods — «in the ignorance of causes,» as Hobbes explains.

Evolution is fact, backed up by multiple scientific disciplines, and only willful ignorance is portrayed by naysayers.

As Elizabeth Eisenstein says in her book on the role of the printing press, Protestant clergy «viewed printing as a providential device which ended forever a priestly monopoly of learning, overcame ignorance and superstition, pushed back the evil forces commanded by Italian popes, and, in general, brought Western Europe out of the dark ages.»

Pastor of the church that faced the city, he himself turned his back on the city, embarrassed by its glitz, glitter and garbage, proud of his ignorance of its restaurants, nightlife, and social and cultural offerings.

I attribute these failings to ignorance and immaturity in politicians and the electorate that could be traced back to amoral, fact - based education and the idealisation of human nature by the Enlightenment.

These are presented by men such as Pliable, who turns back at the Slough of Despond; and Ignorance, who believes he's a true follower of Christ when he's really only trusting in himself.

Karl Schroeder: If there is any life on Earth in 100 years, I foresee either an ecological catastrophe, with the majority of species extinct, the oceans stagnant, the arctic and Antarctic desolate and lifeless, and billions of people living in complete ignorance of how things could be, in massive urban centres; or, a world in which climate change was solved early and completely through innovations in power generation and carbon sequestration, where agriculture has gone to vertical farming and North America has largely been rewilded back to forest and open prairie, and where extinct species are regularly recreated by genetic engineering and reintroduced.

I was at a dinner a couple weeks back at which several journalists spoke on just this issue, and Shankar Vedantam and Chris Mooney made a good case for what I have also suggested (including in my reply to you on April 6); What's really irrational is for smart people, in support of the myth of perfect rationality and frustrated by the public's «ignorance» about risk, to ignore the mountains of evidence from neuroscience and social sciences about how human perception and decision - making actually works, about risk or anything else.

But let us help him out in his ignorance by going back further in the record.

You have proven time and time again that CO2 warming of oceans is a MYTH, backed by anti-science and your monumental ignorance of the effect of a SW on water surfaces.

Modeling long - term climate change for the entire planet, however, was held back by lack of computer power, ignorance of key processes such as cloud formation, inability to calculate the crucial ocean circulation, and insufficient data on the world's actual climate.

When there is a suggestion of a «discount» is it not inherent in that claim that there must be a higher standard based on, at least, a certain frequency of higher rates, and by default harken back to the days of blissful ignorance?