«The executive order signed by the President of the United States this past Friday is a sweeping discrimination of human beings based on their ethnicity and consequently also an act of aggression against
the fundamental values of science.»
Not exact matches
What does the
fundamental progress
of science consist in, except the discovery
of the organic, structural
value of what is most general and everyday in our experience?
Along with common human experience, the behavioral
sciences provide much data that can only be explained in terms
of the individual's
fundamental desire to be
valued.
The
science of biology presented me with a mechanistic or substance image
of reality which provided no clues at all to the meaning
of my life and its
fundamental experiences
of value.
Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation
of humanity to nature, signified by
science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept
of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening
of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their
fundamental human rights
of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the
values of liberty and equality
of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up
of the traditional integration
of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation
of the autonomy
of the secular realm from the control
of religion on the other».
Yet Moedas also presented himself as a firm believer in the
value of fundamental research, including social
sciences and the humanities, a defender
of the freedom
of scientists, and a «strong supporter»
of the European Research Council.
If there is one lesson to emerge from the BSE crisis and the first generation
of genetically modified foods, it is this:
science can not reasonably expect the public to develop an appetite for novel foods unless they offer clear and
fundamental benefits in terms
of taste and nutritional
value.
Cognitive
science research supports the
value of using comparison and contrast to promote general learning: identifying similarities and differences in multiple examples has proven to be a critical and
fundamental pathway to flexible, transferable knowledge.
Both clinical and basic research are highly
valued and faculty strive to enhance the diagnosis, treatment and prevention
of animal disease, promote animal health and productivity, and take advantage
of our unique access to naturally - occurring clinical disease in order to explore mechanisms
of fundamental importance to biomedical
science.