Sentences with phrase «importance than science»

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But rather than incentivize teaching innovation that would allow science educators to discuss religion and ethics --- for example, creationism in light of evolution and vice versa, or the scientific and ethical implications of stem cells and in vitro fertilization — many teachers are afraid to even mention these issues, despite their importance, for fear of losing their jobs.

In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical science.»

Historians may look more favourably on the case of Galileo than our secular press, but one lesson learnt is the importance of Church representatives knowing science.

The science budget will be frozen, rather than suffer big cuts, because of its importance to the economy.

► This week's issue of Science also includes a brief recap of the 40th annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy, attended by «more than 400 elected officials, government and business leaders, researchers, educators, and others» on 30 April and 1 May in Washington, D.C. «The importance of basic research for the nation's scientific and economic future was a recurring theme,» and «participants delved into the factors driving the tight budget environment» scientists are currently facing.

Obama promised more than a year ago to host such a gathering, one of several at which he has extolled the importance of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education and lamented the mediocre performance of U.S. students on international tests.

Some prior research has suggested that carbon dioxide emissions from all lakes on Earth are less than what was found in the Arctic, and future factors could shift the importance of sunlight, noted Lars Tranvik, a Swedish scientist, in an accompanying Science article.

«I have tried to explain what I think is the importance of James Webb, in terms of opening new horizons far greater than we got from Hubble,» Bolden told members of the House Science, Space and Technology committee Tuesday.

Probe — that's the editorial page these days — was more interested in critiquing the quality of the British coverage of mankind's first step on the moon, than discussing its epochal importance to science and society.

Rather than simply completing a project to fulfill an assignment, these students emerged with a broader view of the importance of their research — and of the value of science and engineering in the world beyond the classroom.

Even as the focus on foreign - language instruction up north and Down Under has waned recently in the wake of renewed attention to reading, mathematics, and science instruction, countries outside the United States where English is the primary language have more than a decade's head start in their language skills and public attitudes on the importance of language learning.

The teachers we worked with emphasized the importance of «doing science» rather than simply memorizing it, as well as completing cross-curricular projects and activities.

But while observers think it's promising that many lawmakers are now recognizing the importance of social and emotional skills, many are worried that measuring whether students have become more persistent, resilient or compassionate could be much more difficult and more politically fraught than testing whether kids can read and simplify polynomials, and that the science for holding schools accountable for these important, but more abstract skills just isn't there yet.

by Deborah McNamara on August 13, 2015 0 Bigger than Religion Bigger than Science connecting conservation dots Earth Matters Newsletter Richard Schiffman the importance of extending empathy the role of empathy in environmentalism

The press fallacy is attaching importance almost entirely to scientists reputation rather than adherence to solid science, Dyson, Lindzen and other massive geniuses basically can say anything valid or fictitious and get ink.

[Dr. Carling has] the complete lack of appreciation of the importance of natural variability on short time scales, the -LSB-...] erroneous belief that any attribution of past climate change to -LSB-...] other [than CO2] forcing means that CO2 has no radiative effect, and a hopeless lack of familiarity of the basic science of detection and attribution.

... Even more than replicability (which is WAY up there in importance), science is about quantifying that which is studied.

This seems to be more about SteveM's desire to fight and to bolster his ego and self importance than get to the truth, and is most definitely not about advancing the science.

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