Sentences with phrase «from observation of nature»

Clearly derived from the observation of nature, the sometimes deceptively simple drawings demonstrate Kelly's mastery of line and his continual fascination with abstract form, positive and negative space, and color.

At this point Alistair McGrath proffers a point of divergence from the position presented by this magazine, Catholic Tradition, the First Vatican Council and St Paul to the Romans concerning the «provability» of the Creator from observation of nature.

Made up mostly of brightly hued paintings drawn from observations of nature and meditations on space, the exhibition presents Thomas's output in four phases.

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For a long time now the Christian understanding of man has been obscured by theories of his nature built on other dogmas than that of the sovereignty of God and constructed out of observations of his behavior made from other points of view than those of Christian faith.

Here then we have a whole range of imagery drawn from loving observation of nature and human life.

Yet the key point for Catholic thinkers to acknowledge is that the philosophy of science from Bacon right through to modernity has shown that the success of modern experimental observation does challenge Aristotelian - Scholastic «natures».

«The scientific view of the Universe is such as to admit only those phenomena that can, in one way or another, be observed in a fashion accessible to all, and to admit those generalizations (which we call laws of nature) that can be induced from those observations.»

Nature is contingent on the divine will and can be known only by observing it humbly.8 These were presuppositions from which science could develop: the order, regularity, and intelligibility of nature, and the necessity of observation and experimentNature is contingent on the divine will and can be known only by observing it humbly.8 These were presuppositions from which science could develop: the order, regularity, and intelligibility of nature, and the necessity of observation and experimentnature, and the necessity of observation and experimentation.

The constitution has been described as encouraging a shift from deductive to inductive methodology, in other words one based upon a developing understanding and observation of human nature.

Nature and the Church as sources of our faith are never explained, and observations from the former (let alone the Catholic Natural Law tradition) are rarely explained.

In this book, Whitehead traces the origin of modern natural science as it generalized laws of nature from new observations of aggregates — cannon - balls, stars, grains of sand — and then assumed these laws to apply to individual organisms as well.

Aristotle started from the passive observation of nature and then built up a system based on rational argument.

The vivid imagination and the sharp observation of men and nature that marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range of human emotions from awe in the presence of the numinous to the feelings of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work of the lecture room), not consistently, of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one of the products of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers of the Reformation examples of Biblical preaching.

«Judging from observations made during my brief visit to this portion of the island, east of Dunga, the chillie cultivation struck me as being of a very scattered nature, generally small isolated patches from half to one or two acres in extent, and combined with tobacco, tomato, pumpkins, etc..

I, being of lawful age, in consideration of being permitted to utilize the above - described race track facilities and / or participate in and / or observe TVBWFA Barrel Races and / or events release and forever discharge Releases, their heirs, administrators, and executors of and from any and every claim, demand, action, of whatsoever kind or nature, either in law or in equity arising from or by reason of any bodily injury or personal injuries known or unknown, death, and / or property damage which may occur as a result of my utilization of the above described race track facilities and / or any participation in and / or observation of TVBWFA Barrel Races and / or events or any activity in connection therewith, whether by negligence or not.

The study, published in Nature Communications, builds on previous observations from the same team who found that a specific type of cells regulate antibody production.

That's the conclusion reached by Louise Barrett at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, who studied 11 years of observations from a baboon troop in De Hoop Nature Reserve, South Africa.

The latest observations, reported online January 10 in Nature and at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, suggest the bursts are coming from an environment with an unusually strong magnetic field.

and hence the illustration of the nature of the scientific hearings of the accessions to knowledge which his expedition has produced are drawn from these materials; but, as other branches of the information embraced in his observations are unfolded, other theoretical applications will appear for the advancement of philosophy and such of the geographical sciences as meteorology and terrestrial magnetism, concerning which the observations made in the South Polar regions tend in some respects to deliver the deciding stroke in the elaboration.

So inflation's pioneers, most notably Alan Guth and Andrei Linde, can join the list of great thinkers who have used mathematical recipes to pry deep secrets from nature long before confirmation by observation.

«With the results from the WB - 57s and complementary observations from space and other experiments on the ground we have an opportunity to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the nature of the corona.»

«Guided by observations that show that the membrane thickness varies from pole to pole, we constructed a mathematical model that considers the egg to be a pressurized elastic shell that grows and showed that we can capture the entire range of egg shapes observed in nature,» said Mahadevan.

Until now, the SETI project has relied on time borrowed from instruments like the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, and has had little control over the extent and nature of the observations.

In their paper published in Nature the physicists from the University's College of Science, working with an international collaborative team at CERN, describe the first observation of spectral line shapes in antihydrogen, the antimatter equivalent of hydrogen.

The international team that discovered the extinct gorilla - like species C. abyssinicus (reported in the journal Nature in 2007) reports new field observations and geological techniques that the authors say revise the age - constraint of the human split from their brethren.

The history of these observations is quite long (volunteers started to collect this data in the 1950s as indicated in their Nature Scientific Data publication) and their uses are various: from supporting the planning and execution of various agronomical practices, to studying the magnitude and direction of climate change at continental scales.

Because of these false positives, a sequence of tests - as originally outlined by Alonso et al. (2004)- is employed, beginning with detailed revisions of the detection light - curves, and continuing for surviving candidates with follow - up observations, to either reject them from the list of planetary candidates or to verify their planetary nature.

Your map in Figure 3a (and the cover of Nature) gives the casual reader the perception that all of Antarctica has exhibited a warming trend from 1957 - 2006, when in fact, it seems that at least one location, direct, local observations indicate otherwise.

u Wendy L. Freedman et al., «Distance to the Virgo Cluster Galaxy M100 from Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Cepheids,» Nature, Vol.

The characteristic relaxation time for a distance fluctuation, such as inter-domain motion, is observation - time - dependent, increasing in a simple, power - law fashion, arising from the fractal nature of the topology and geometry of the energy landscape explored.

A Spin - down Clock for Cool Stars from Observations of a 2.5 - billion - year - old Cluster was published in the journal Nature.

Using BLENDER together with constraints from other follow - up observations we are able to rule out all blends for the two deeper signals, and provide independent validation of their planetary nature.

The photodetector array camera and spectrometer (PACS) aboard the Herschel Space Observatory allows imaging observations in the far infrared at unprecedented resolution, i.e. at better than 6» to 12» over the wavelength range of 60 -LCB- \ mu -RCB- m to 210 -LCB- \ mu -RCB- m. Together with the results from ground - based observations, these spatially resolved data can be modelled to determine the nature of the debris and its evolution more reliably than would be possible from unresolved data alone.

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.»

The observations that astrocytes and even non-neural cells (J Cell Sci 2004, J Lipid Res 2007) store and can release neurotransmitter amino acids in a way resembling synaptic release, and that oligodendrocytes have NMDA type glutamate receptors (Nature 2005), together with findings that glutamate and other neuroactive substances can be co-released from nerve endings (Eur J Neurosci 2003, Molec Neurosci 2004, Cereb Cortex 2009a), including at the neuromuscular junction (Neuroscience 2007b), suggest novel ways of intercellular communication and potential drug targets.

Feedback like this led us to conclude that the particular nature of video made it fundamentally different from the other artifacts collected during observations, such as observers» notes, board snapshots, lesson plans, and student work.

As an observation about the nature and limits of syllabi, Labaree's point is not to be denied: syllabi vary in their level of detail, ranging from a schematic account of texts, topics, and course requirements to a week - by - week specification of readings and assignments, along with supplementary readings, grading rubrics and formulas, and lengthy expositions of the perspective of the instructor.

My inspiration partly comes from my childhood experiences and observations of Nature in rural Kenya.

Nature experiences include frequent sightings of dolphins and whales from the beach, and an adjacent national park is ideal for bird watching and wildlife observation.

I really just wanted to visit the observation deck to see the falls from above and to capture some great shots from up high since we didn't opt for a helicopter tour or anything of that nature.

Equal emphasis is given to multimedia works that embrace unusual forms of abstraction drawn from minutely detailed observations of nature.

Frieberg is a painter whose process is deeply rooted in the experience of nature, translating her observations from personally important places around the world onto canvas.

The works are based on observation of nature, from close up nature studies to broader landscapes.

The very act of observation is inherent to human nature and starting from that commonplace the artist starts processing and articulating his thoughts and ideas.

He further draws from frank observations of nature and humans, intermixing the two, suggesting an emotional range of psychological expressions, from steadfast and pensive to tired and mischievous in these works.

In pursuing his own ideas, the artist created an entirely autonomous body of work from out of the perceptions and experiences that resulted from his own observations of nature.

Developing and refining motifs drawn from nature into the stylized, kaleidoscopic forms that populate her canvases, Coates balances the immediacy of observation with the depth of a sophisticated artistic practice.

«Metaphysical cosmology seeks to draw intuitive conclusions about the nature of the universe, man, a supernatural creator, and / or their relationships based on the extension of some set of presumed facts borrowed from spiritual experience and / or observation.»

The five artists in the first session, which began January 3 and lasts until February 12, are Carrie Beckmann, a watercolorist who paints directly from nature and can normally be found working in the Conservatory; Danielle Durchslag, who is using cut and layered paper to represent Wave Hill's natural surroundings; Sabrina Gschwandtner, who has covered her studio floor with 16mm - film strips (some found stock and some she's shot at Wave Hill) that will be sewn together to create illuminated quilts; Nick Lamia, who is experimenting with plein - air drawings as a source for multi-dimensional abstractions; and Adam Parker Smith, who has been busily painting colorful, wall - sized assemblages of plants and flowers based on observations at Wave Hill.

She learned patient observation of nature from him.