Sentences with phrase «call human progress»

Is that true of all things we call human progress — do the gods retire as commerce and science advance?

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So far, Inovio has made the most progress with a so - called therapeutic vaccine — one that helps defeat a disease even after a patient has been diagnosed — for human papilloma virus, or HPV.

On the other hand, the human way is always recognizable by matters being made easier; and that is called progress.»

We should not lament the absence of a divine call to annihilate «the other» but celebrate the progress of the human spirit that enables us to «fulfill the task» with human generosity and a moral conscience.

Gaudium et Spes calls in particular for doctrinal development in the light of «progress» in human knowledge and culture.

In the forthcoming Victories of Reason he will go even further, contending that the most significant advances in knowledge, liberty, human rights and material well - being — what we like to call progress — stem not from Greece or the Enlightenment or modernity but from Christianity itself.

Our calling is to invite all to turn from gods which are even less than human, and from idols like power, profit, property, creed, class, caste, language, race, success, technocratic progress, managerial efficiency and the ego, and thus experience the fulfilling realization of God's Reign which consists in justice, freedom and fellowship, tender love, universal compassion and equitable sharing of resources.

As we have shown, the sub-division of what one may call «the human spiritual categories» begins logically with faith in the state of Being, and proceeds to faith m the further progress of the material world around us — that is to say, in the most fundamental terms, faith in the spiritual value of matter.

Sir Julian Huxley, former UNESCO director, regards birth control as the only real hope in the problem and terms it «a prerequisite for anything that you can call progress and advance in human evolution.»

The first thing to give us pause, as we survey the progress of human collectivization, is what I would call the inexorable nature of a phenomenon which arises directly and automatically out of the conjunction of two factors, both of a structural kind: first, the confined surface of the globe, and secondly, the incessant multiplication, within this restricted space, of human units endowed by ever - improving means of communication with a rapidly increasing scope for action; to which may be added the fact that their advanced psychic development makes them preeminently capable of influencing and inter-penetrating one another.

By human standards, scientific and technological advances can probably be called progress, and yet there do not seem to be any similar advances in moral living.

(Allen Lane) by Steven Pinker describes the impact of humanism on on human progress, and presents a call to arms not to allow such progress to be washed away.

At the 41st annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy, the top U.S. science advisor called on scientists and engineers to communicate the relationship between scientific progress, human well - being, and economic growth

Mutations in a gene called progranulin (GRN) are commonly associated with frontotemporal dementia, but GRN mutations in mice do not mimic all the features of the human disorder, which has limited progress in the development of effective treatments.

Although Kato called human reproductive cloning directly from iPS cell lines «very hypothetical,» he pointed out progress for that possibility when he noted that three teams had produced mouse clones from iPS cells.

In addition, the Board calls for an annual Global Sustainable Development Report — a flagship UN publication like the Human Development Report — that monitors progress, identifies critical issues and root causes of challenges, and offers potential ways forward.

The human and animal study found that the CD4 + Foxp3 + regulatory T - cells, called Tregs, are closely linked with how quickly ALS progresses.

Recently, considerable progress has been made in studies evaluating the possible role of one virus group, called enteroviruses, which have been connected with human type 1 diabetes in a variety of reports.

Hired to investigate the «accidental» death of the son of one of Ernie's old girlfriends, the two lizardy gumshoes stumble upon a cult called the Voice of Progress, comprised of fanatical dinosaurs who want to wipe out all humans and take over the world.

My purpose has long been to help people make sense of the momentous environmental and social changes under way on this «pale blue dot» called Earth, the forces behind those changes, and what policies and practices can foster human progress while limiting regrets.

Report: UN warns of threat to human progress; Transient Middle Eocene Atmospheric CO2 and Temperature Variations; Climate scientists plan campaign against global warming skeptics; Inaccurate news reports misrepresent AGU climate - science initiative; climate crisis is no crisis (media confusion); ClimateGate One Year Later; Energy & Environment Hearing; Philippines: Aquino calls for lifestyle change

The numerous phone calls to check on my progress and always being ready to offer valuable assistance and advice were greatly appreciated, especially from someone with vast experience and a network of human resource organizations and contacts.