Sentences with phrase «competing human projects»
As the title of his lecture signals, Berlin's basic intellectual move was to distinguish between «negative liberty» and «positive liberty,» and then to defend the former as the only concept of liberty that could be actualized in the «real world» of inevitably conflicting interests, diverse concepts of the good, and competing human projects.
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That all changed in the late 1990s, when Craig Venter's private company Celera and the publicly funded Human Genome Project competed to see who could finish the first complete genome sequence.
Mireille de la Lez, photographer with the Wild Wonders of Europe project, sums up the essence of the human condition in the face of the great predators which are some of the few animals that compete with humans for the top of the food chain.
Because it was the Human Genome projects, two competing teams locked in bitter rivalry, one led by J. Craig Venter, one by Francis Collins — and from what I hear, those guys did not like each other at all.