Sentences with phrase «discoveries of the twentieth century»

Two of the greatest discoveries of the twentieth century cast considerable doubt upon, and some would say refute, the contention that the mind of man can be explained as a mere biochemical machine.

These, and new industries still to come along, will depend on the scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.

Everybody loves a treasure hunt, and, all by themselves, the Dead Sea Scrolls certainly qualify as «the greatest archaeological discovery of the twentieth century.»

The fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.

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In the twentieth century the Essenes have attracted much interest because of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

As Boodin has said, the new intellectual renaissance into which physics has led us in the twentieth century is marked, not only by the emancipation from mechanism, but «the discovery of form or structure as fundamental in reality.

In addition to Gilson's discoveries, the latter half of the twentieth century has seen further development of a distinctive metaphysics of the person and of the relationality implicit in the metaphysics of St. Thomas.

This situation is witnessed to by the fact that the only metaphysical issue where there is a virtual consensus among mainstream twentieth century Catholic thinkers, apart from the reality of human subjectivity mentioned above, is the claim that the discoveries of modern science should not have a significant influence upon metaphysics.

It is significant that interpreters, both of the Old and the New Testaments, have been able to determine much more clearly and precisely the «Eigenart» of these documents and their views of God, world, and men on the basis of studies in the religions of the ancient Near East than could be done before the discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

It is arguable that, had Einstein known a metaphysics more favorable to quantum physics than the Spinozism and other similar doctrines influencing him, he might not have spent the latter decades of his life vainly attempting to recover the absolute «incarnate reason» of classical causality which had been made irrelevant by twentieth - century discoveries, including his own.

Photograph 51 (DNA), by Rosalind Franklin (1952) X-rays played a part in one of the twentieth century's greatest discoveries.

One of the greatest discoveries in plant pathology in the twentieth century was that of Flor in the 1940s when he proposed his gene for gene theory, based on results of his crosses of flax, each of which were resistant to none, one, or several races of flax rust (3).

With the discovery during the latter half of the twentieth century of more objects within the solar system and large objects around other stars, dispute arose over what should constitute a planet.

The discovery of deep sea hot springs and an abundance of microbes in the subseafloor are among the most remarkable scientific findings in Earth science during the latter half of the twentieth century, and have now become a powerful motivation for research and exploration, according to the National Science Foundation, a major funder of this work.

At Team, José Freire had an interesting, forty - three - year - old discovery named James Crosby, who was showing white canvas versions of fireman helmets by the early twentieth - century, African American inventor Garrett Morgan.

Homer concluded that Arthur Pinajian represented one of the most compelling discoveries in the history of twentieth century American art:

In the Twentieth Century, the discovery by modern physicists that all matter exists only as a shifting field of energized sub-atomic particles, strongly reinforced these ancient ideas of reality being nothing more than an artificial projection of the mind and gave them a new impetus.

Coring old lake beds and examining the types of pollen trapped in sediment layers led to the discovery of the Younger Dryas early in the twentieth century.