Sentences with phrase «by human invention»

But, whereas in ancient times the apocalyptic writers expected God to usher in the new world, the first science fiction authors described a future created by human invention.

And we can see that nation (i.e., «people») ultimately trumps place, even if place usually helps to make the nation (such as ours), and even if the one nation in history that was capable of surviving dispersion was the one that always looked back to the one holy city not consecrated by human invention or delusion.

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The greatest invention made by human is «wheel» which improved quality of life for humans allover the world.

The plunge into space, the acquisition of new weapons, the breakthroughs in medical and other sciences are shaped largely by their own internal dynamics... The human being, while being the inventor, is simultaneously the prisoner of the process of invention.10

This is done, in this remarkable human family of which we are all a part, with demonic craft by the powerful, in an absolutely dazzling array of forms (if necessity is the mother of invention, covetousness and lust are the parents of ingenuity), upon well - established but shamelessly fraudulent justification, usually in the broad sense religious and sometimes even specifically theological.

God, always on the safe side, stationed one of his angels with a sword (because guns were not yet invented by men and for some curious reason angelic inventions seem to always lag one step behind human inventions) at the entrance of the garden to keep Adam and Eve and their little youngin's away.

Does it proceed from within, being conceived and ensued by psychic forces analogous to our human power of invention?

Understanding, discovery, invention... From the first awakening of his reflective consciousness, Man has been possessed by the demon of discovery; but until a very recent epoch this profound need remained latent, diffused and unorganized in the human mass.

Does religion (equated by Justice Kennedy in an earlier case with the belief that «an ethic and a morality which transcends human invention» exists) have any role to play in the law?

By coming at once to the primitive model and rejecting all human inventions, the Church was to be at once released from the controversies of eighteen centuries, and the primitive gospel of salvation was to be disentangled and disembarrassed from all those corruptions and perversions which had heretofore delayed or arrested its progress [Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, by Robert Richardson (Lippincott, 1868 - 70), VoBy coming at once to the primitive model and rejecting all human inventions, the Church was to be at once released from the controversies of eighteen centuries, and the primitive gospel of salvation was to be disentangled and disembarrassed from all those corruptions and perversions which had heretofore delayed or arrested its progress [Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, by Robert Richardson (Lippincott, 1868 - 70), Voby Robert Richardson (Lippincott, 1868 - 70), Vol.

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.

Evangelicalism stresses personal faith, unimpeded by custom and «human» inventions.

Machines are thus seen to constrict rather than aid civilization by relegating the human spirit more and more to the background of the real shapers of society — our technological inventions.

It is a process that has involved various levels of human invention, expressing itself mainly in the development of technology and various other fields of human knowledge and endeavor, and I should add emphatically the various stages of human hubris that has expressed itself in the oppression and conquest of peoples by other peoples.

Redemption through love is the end of Wagner's mythic teaching» but as he holds the sacred to be of purely human invention, it is «redemption by our own devices and without the aid of a god.»

Waterbirth for humans is an invention of the last hundred years, facilitated by modern plumbing, heating and sewage systems.

Ideas of freedom, justice, happiness, equality, fairness and all the other values we may live by are human inventions, and we can be proud of that, as we strive to live up to them.

Yu and Nickerson decided to build on this ability by throwing designs that have gone through algorithms to a new human crowd to assess the usefulness of an invention.

Still, there remains one stark difference between his invention and the real human limb: Herr's prosthesis does not connect to the central nervous system, so the wearer can not move it just by thinking.

But some researchers argue that our primate cousins do not learn as we do, by imitation and instruction, and most agree that primates don't seem to be able to build on previous inventions as humans do.

Sacks celebrates this ingenious human invention, letter by letter, in a historical chronicle packed with curious trivia.

As such, they are either a demonstration of independent invention by Neandertals or an indication that modern humans started influencing European Neandertals much earlier than previously believed.

For example, cross-model comparisons may help to pinpoint key cell types and molecules involved in lineage decisions, reveal evolutionary inventions, and may allow to interpret genetic disease models (for example in mouse) by mapping to human or other systems.

Like human culture, chimpanzee cultures likely arise when new behaviors are introduced to a population either through immigration by an outsider into an established group or by invention from within [6]--[9].

And it's no spoiler to say that once again we meet the grizzled blade runner of yore, Harrison Ford, who reminds us that these movies were always about the most human of inventions, love, even if manufactured by machines.

That much muscle is foreign to human nature and requires active driving aids, inventions referred to by skeptics as «electronic nannies.»

Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat (Thomas Dunne Books)

However, since that time the advent of the rabies vaccine by Louis Pasteur and Emile Roux has aided prevention of rabies in animals and treatment of humans who have been exposed to rabies, making this vaccination an extremely reliable and live - saving invention.

Introducing his Bill, Straw said: «Often such claims are for whiplash, which is not so much an injury, more a profitable invention of the human imagination — undiagnosable except by third - rate doctors in the pay of the claims management companies or personal injury lawyers.