A theory is valued if it accurately accounts
for known observations and yields precise predictions of future measurements.
Not exact matches
For example, if you notice a worker struggling with one set of tasks but exceeding in another, let him or her
know your
observations, and make an effort to arrange the workload to a balance more favorable to the person's strengths.
And to those of you I
know personally, or who periodically send a thoughtful word, an interesting
observation, or an article to share, I'm very grateful
for your friendship.
Science is not religion, it is a method of enquiry based upon direct
observation which transcends religion (the laws of physics are the same
for everyone,
no matter how you name God or even whether you believe).
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, better
known simply as Lord Acton, is most often remembered
for his frequently quoted
observation that «power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.»
For we all
know instinctively and by
observation that it is by might that people prevail.
If an individual claimed that he was chosen by God and could not sin
no matter how heinous his actions, we would commit him
for observation.
He then writes a book to inform others of his groundbreaking
observations of the most significant kind,
knowing that many will persecute him and reject his findings
for hundreds of years based on their older religious beliefs.
No, people who make
observations of their surrounding are only a problem
for the church.
He was speaking to teachers about education, but his
observation applies also to parenting — to parents who
know they have an ideal
for the concept of the «good» and a relation with a gracious God.
After reading the title I thought Jeremy found a wonderful Baptist church to attend but this is well
known observation statistic that people that leave the church really do lose their purpose, adventure in faith, and passion
for God not saying that Jeremy did but there are many testimonies that say this when they return to the fold
Immediate Intuition in Caritasin Veritate
For Edward Holloway every human
observation inherently involves a complementary interaction and interdefinition between «me and my environment», a fundamental aspect of which is the relationship between the
knowing spiritual mind and ordered matter.
A theory in its technical usage is something that is more or less verified or an established explanation accounting
for known facts or
observations, like the theory of relativity or how evolutionary biology is a theory.
This reprobate character is
known not only through an individual's own experience with himself as he struggles with impulses too strong
for his own strength to overcome, but also through his
observation of the world about him, a world in which evil and its works are so terribly apparent, and in whose operations he is so inextricably involved.
The question was «science can explain» not «science can explain everything» 1) We will never
know the position of every bit of matter so
knowing everything is not possible — the current theories match
observations well enough
for the answer to be yes 2) Again
knowing everything about every individual step in the creation of life is not possible but current theories match... 3) here do
know pretty much everything.
I think I just don't
know how to eyeball a recipe and decide how it's going to come out — if you have rules of thumb or
observations enough
for a post, I'd bookmark that and refer to it often!
I don't
know if this is a skewed
observation on my part but it seems like it is happening far too much
for the line to be considered truly great / elite.
It is also necessary to
know when that balance has tipped toward the offspring,
for it's my
observation that once this happens, the parental relationship withers and dies.
In her presentation this morning, Morra Aarons - Mele made an excellent
observation: internet staffers
for political campaigns are expected to do everything and to
know everything.
Hot on the heels of Sunday's
observation about the tools not caring who uses them, here's another addition to the Simple Rules
for Online Politics:
Knowing that you're right isn't the same as showing that you're right The...
«We have made our
observations known with regard to some technicalities in the projects executed particularly concerning the security out - post the Agency is constructing
for the Immigration Service, the Nigerian Army, Customs service and the Police.
But close
observation by a reporter
for The New York Times, who is a fellow member of the Y.M.C.A., reveals it to be more rigid, lengthy and leisurely than previously
known.
At the outset of the contest Jon Cruddas made the wise
observation that even though he had
known all the candidates personally
for 20 years, he didn't really -LSB-...]
Taken over many
observations, the researchers were able to systematically define the sets of meanings of 33 bonobo gesture types and compare them to gesture meanings already
known for chimpanzees.
They tested high - performance computational models against
known geological and geophysical
observations of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and demonstrated that a drip of lithospheric material below the surface can account
for the measured elevation changes across the region.
I
knew this lakeshore to be a primary movement corridor
for a resident female northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus), and based on
observations from previous nights, I expected my nocturnal subject to launch herself across the lake sometime between 2:20 and 2:50 a.m.
Going beyond this specific demonstration, if this approach,
known as acoustic seafloor geodesy, proves to be robust in the long term (in this case, three to five years are planned, within the limits of the autonomy of the batteries), it could be included within a permanent underwater observatory as an addition to other
observations (seismology, gas bubble emission, etc)
for in situ real - time monitoring of the activity of this particular fault, or of other active submarine faults elsewhere in the world.
In one lung cancer study, the most telling
observation was that
for those getting screened regularly, the rate of cancer detection was almost the same in smokers as it was in nonsmokers — even though we
know that smokers face about a 20-fold increased risk of dying from lung cancer.
We
know from very precise supernova
observations that the universe is accelerating, but at the same time we rely on coarse approximations to Einstein's equations which may introduce serious side - effects, such as the need
for dark energy, in the models designed to fit the observational data.»
«The variation of Mercury's calcium exosphere with the planet's position in its orbit has been
known for several years from MESSENGER
observations, but the proposal that the source of this variation is a meteor shower associated with a specific comet is novel,» added MESSENGER Principal Investigator Sean Solomon, of the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York.
Better minds than mine have
no doubt been brought to bear on the question, and here I offer only a few
observations for what they are worth.
Multiple
observations indicate that the flowing water responsible
for shaping and moving the rounded pebbles encountered in the vicinity of the rover landing area has long since been lost to space, though some of it may still exist deep below the surface of the planet at equatorial locations (water ice is
known to exist near the surface at the poles).
(
Observations during total solar eclipses fare
no better,
for the same reason.)
Even so, in the NIA trial, four of the monkeys that began the diet as adults lived to be over 40, breaking all
known records
for macaques — an
observation which may cheer those who practise calorie restriction.
And it maybe goes both ways, but I
know that in radio astronomy,
for example, they have taken advantage of a lot of the — and presumably in other kinds of astronomy as well, they've taken advantage of the, you
know, how cheap storage is now and processing power to do really hugely data - intensive
observations with off - the - shelf technologies, and they've used graphics processors to, you
know, do things they could only do before with custom fabricated chips, which were obviously extremely expensive.
«These problems have been
known for 20 years, but they are becoming worse as the
observations get better,» says de Vega.
With more than 300 instrument systems providing ground - based climate
observations, ARM relies heavily on instrument scientists and engineers
known as instrument mentors
for calibrating and assessing the status of the instruments.
From satellite
observations such as radar interferometry, Rignot and his colleagues conclude a common cause underlies the retreat of West Antarctica's largest glaciers, including Pine Island Glacier,
known for cleaving massive icebergs, and its neighbor, Thwaites Glacier.
Although scientists have
known for decades that Qori Kalis and the other Quelccaya glaciers are melting, new
observations indicate that the rate of retreat is increasing, Professor Thompson said.
One of the prime targets
for observation are nearby Earth - size worlds such as TRAPPIST - 1d, and the closest
known exoplanet to Earth, Proxima b, which orbits its star a mere 4.25 light - years away.
Some of the discontinuities (which can be of either sign) in weather records can be detected using jump point analyses (
for instance in the new version of the NOAA product), others can be adjusted using
known information (such as biases introduced because changes in the time of
observations or moving a station).
Earth Science Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment AirMOSS Aqua Aura Aquarius CALIPSO CARVE Center
for Earth and Climate Science Education CloudSat DISCOVER - AQ Earth to Sky - Building Climate Literacy
for Informal Educators: Expanding the Earth to Sky Partnership (EPOESS NNH09CF00C) Girl Scouts Earth Science Patch Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) The GLOBE Program GLOBE at Langley GRACE ICESat - 2 Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) MY NASA DATA NASA Climate Day / Earth Ambassadors NASA
Know Your Earth Campaign NOVA Labs Ocean Surface Topography Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2 SAGE III on ISS S'COOL: Student Cloud
Observations On - Line SMAP Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) Teaching Inquiry using NASA Earth System Science (TINES) Terra
Not only will Webb's
observations of the stars and other components of our galaxy help astronomers clarify our understanding of its inner workings, it will help to define what's normal
for our cosmic neighborhood — so that when we detect something out of the ordinary, we'll
know it.
Building on past
observations of the white dwarf called SDSSJ1043 +0855 (the dead core of a star that originally was a few times the mass of the Sun), which has been
known to be gobbling up rocky material in its orbit
for almost a decade, the team used Keck Observatory's HIRES instrument fitted to the 10 - meter Keck I telescope as well as data from the Hubble Space Telescope to measure and characterize the material being accreted by the star.
It's been up there
for almost 26 years, which means there are a lot of kids and even adults who don't
know what it's like to NOT have these
observations sent down on a regular basis, or what it was like before Hubble helped solve some of the fundamental questions about the expansion of the universe and what is out there.
The premise behind SETI, an acronym
for Search
for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is that technologically advanced civilizations want to make their existence
known to their less - capable kin (i.e. us) and go about it by producing signals that might be detected in the course of our routine scientific
observations.
The challenge was then to make sense of all the data, given what we
knew from previous Hubble
observations, and come up with a plausible explanation
for the intriguing nature of this particular galaxy.»
For instance, red rice is said to be best (along with shastika [60 day harvested] as well as two others); they
knew that long before the study (video by Greger) through
observation.
Brings to mind Dr McDougall's
observation that people love finding «studies» that help them to continue eating foods they deep down
know aren't good
for them (e.g., Time magazine's «Butter's Back!».)
On the other hand, some professional bodies (in this case, the OPDQ — Quebec's dietitians association), states that cholesterol is
no longer considered a preoccupation
for people's health (that's my translation from the very last paragraph of the following Written
observations dated September 2014 filed by the Association in relation to the federal government's proposed modifications to nutritional labels).