Sentences with phrase «essential nature of time»

The essential nature of time remains the universe's greatest mystery

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These, I suggest, are the essentials around which we can unite, and beyond which we must grant liberty for differing opinions about issues relating to the future of Israel, the chronology of the end times, the nature of the priesthood, the practice of the gifts of the Spirit, church governance or even (dare I say it?)

As Person explains, Kirk's stories tend to focus upon either «the reality of evil... and the nature of justice through violent retribution» or «the essential mystery of time and eternity.»

Both find human life and the temporal world of becoming plagued by an ultimate evil that is deeply involved with the nature of time — in particular, with the essential passage of time and the temporal dimension of the past.

This doctrine of the essential relation of time to self - constituting actualities strictly determines what the nature of time must be.

Rather the future is unrelated to the present, something which might possibly not be, and its not being would make no change in the present; something which is coming some time, but which so far as its essential nature is concerned could already have been some time; indeed the speculation is widespread that the blessings of salvation pre-exist and are already present in heaven.

Thus, in a series of works published in 1919 and the early 1920s, in opposition to relativity theory, Whitehead argued not only that the geometry of the world was uniform, but that «the properties of time and space express the basis of the uniformity in nature which is essential for our knowledge of nature as a coherent system» (R 8, 29).1 Furthermore, he held that this uniformity was actually discerned there (H 14).

The author, and perhaps Jewish thought in general at that time, recognized the intimate relationship of the age - old speculation of the Orient to that of Greece; both had come to express in differing terms but in essential unity the conviction that human life is infused with a pervasive entity which is more than human, finding its ultimate origin and nature in the being of the universe.

Midwives have the knowledge, training and experience to support physiologic birth and have developed care models and practices around providing information, reducing stress, building confidence, allowing nature to take its time, and promoting healthy biologic processes and innate hormonal systems that this report shows are essential elements in the health and well - being of mothers and babies and families.

Leaders should remember that it is only a matter of time before regimes and ideologies crumble if they do not ensure a durable balance of this essential tension (between human nature attributes and human dignity needs).

Mr Speaker, if the citizens of this country could see the time and care taken in making these decisions; the carefully - targeted nature of all our interventions; and the strict controls in place to ensure that the law and our democratic values are upheld; and if they could witness the integrity and professionalism of the men and women of the intelligence agencies, who are among the very finest public servants our nation has, then I believe that they would be reassured by how we go about this essential work.

The Economist warned that neurotechnology may be on the verge of «overturning the essential nature of humanity,» and New York Times columnist William Safire brooded that neural implants might allow a «controlling organization» to hack into our brains.

Discovered that the persistent sodium current, INaP, paradoxically amplifies afterhyperpolarizations and reduces the frequency (f / I) gain, and strongly modulates spike timing (Vervaeke et al., Neuron 2006); that Kv7 / M / KCNQ - type K + channels but not SK channels are essential for excitability control in hippocampal neurons (Gu et al., J Physiol, 2005); that Kv7 / M / KCNQ - type K + channels are essential for spatial learning and prevention of epilepsy (Nature Neuroscience 8: 51 - 60, 2005), that KCa1 / BK - type K + channels are essential for cerebellar learning and motor control (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101: 0474 - 8, 2004), the role of postsynaptic voltage-gated K + channels in regulation of synaptic plasticity (LTP) and integration (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99:10144, 2002); that Kv7 / M / KCNQ - type K + channels are essential for intrinsic theta resonance in hippocampal neurons (J Physiol 545:783, 2002).

But the producers» spectacular ambitions are undercut time and again by two factors: by the fact that the essential dramatic interest inheres in the grotesquely confined agonies of one man and, beyond that, in the unlikely (which is to say, in entertainment terms, likely) friendship and love of two men; and by the very nature of Franklin Schaffner as a director — that he is also one of the producers serves not so much to contradict my idea of Schaffner the director as to index an ambivalence that is the richest source of tension in the movie.

Beginning with the moment when apes begin cognitive thought and jumping to early lunar exploration, continuing with a manned journey to Jupiter and the development and understanding of non-linear time, 2001: A Space Odyssey tackles some of the most essential topics of humanity and nature.

Whilst quality and accountability is essential to teacher and principal development, and the notion of professional standards is supported in principle, it is of concern to many educators that the complexity of professional growth, development and training has been reduced to a set of basic competencies that may not truly reflect the complex nature of teaching, the principalship, teacher education and the preparation of teachers and educational leaders for contemporary times and a challenging future.

Reconnecting children with nature and giving them creative opportunities to learn about the causes and effects of deforestation is absolutely essential in our times.

But once upon a time — say, the 1960s — it was the nature of objects, pared down to essentials, and often made from...

Gueorguieva discusses the essential nature of studio time and the important, magical nature of the painting process: «A lot of what I do has to do with a way of thinking about space and time.

In these and other ways, the exhibition subtly probes the essential nature of painting, distilling a simultaneity of object and image and emphasizing the time - based aspect of creation and reception.

I attribute this to the fact that the science ranges from ambiguous to questionable, which is the ESSENTIAL NATURE of long time scale, future looking, environmental impact assessment.

The value of collision insurance rests in its essential nature as a form of automotive asset protection; and we all know that these assets depreciate over time unlike safe defensive driving.