Sentences with phrase «important than science»

Looking to a lifetime politician like Al Gore as a source of inspiration is an admission that the politics of global warming are more important than the science.

To him, his preconceived notions were always more important than the science.

It's always refreshing to see someone so openly expressing his opinion that politics is more important than science.

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When meeting an important new contact for the first time, if at all possible try to do it face to face rather than over the phone or a video chat, science suggests.

Actually the job in hand is much greater than just answering particular questions of «science and religion» such as might be discussed with great technical expertise at the Vatican Observatory — important though these are.

In fact, I think that it is important to stress that Whitehead is more than a natural theologian, and offers a metaphysical conceptuality which is also able to tackle questions raised by contemporary science.

Thus, in an important essay, he argues that «freedom requires indeterminism and universal causality «56 He freely admits that there is an element of regularity and order in nature which may be partially described in the statistical laws of science; but he also confesses his inability to give a rational explanation (other than the immanence of God) of why, in a world of freedom, we have an orderly cosmos instead of sheer chaos.57

We just have to show that being absolute about Christ is what's important rather than science, sociological theories, politics, pleasure, our own self, or any of the other temptations of our age.

When the astronomical revolution of the sixteenth century — in which the Italian philosophers of the Renaissance played a far more important role than historians of science admit — removed the universal cosmic clock, there were two alternative ways open to physics and philosophy of nature: either to retain the relational theory of time and to hold with Bruno (Bruno 1879, p. 144) that «there are as many times as there are the stars» (tot tempora quot astra), since there is no body possessing a privileged rotation motion, and the only body which allegedly had it — the sphere of the fixed stars — has been swept away; or to save the unity and homogeneity of time by separating it from any particular motion — and this is what Newton did, anticipated in this respect by Isaac Barrow and, in particular, Gassendi.

Although current science is not complete, it appears that, as with adults, the total amount of physical activity is more important for achieving health benefits than is any one component (frequency, intensity, or duration) or specific mix of activities (aerobic, muscle - strengthening, bone strengthening).

Not only does a fluent reader make the transition to being a fluent writer much more easily than a non-fluent reader, but as students get older reading plays an important role in math, science, and social studies, too.

Science is not a debate society where sophistry is more important than facts and evidence.

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«Science outreach is more important than avoiding conflict,» she says.

«This missing science of heredity... is, in simple truth, ten times more important to humanity than all the chemistry and physics, all the technical and industrial science that ever has been or ever will be discovered,» wrote H. G. Wells in 1903.

But, she pointedly adds, these «objective» cutoffs disproportionately exclude from the sciences members of underrepresented groups, including women and non-Asian racial minorities, who, on average, do less well than white and Asian men on the GRE, especially on the all - important math section.

The American public likes science, but thinks that its achievements are less important than they were a decade ago.

More important than any piece of scientific research is the collection of fearsome science - fiction scenarios that comprise its implications.

Promoting the power and consequence of science «is more important than ever right now,» particularly as critics question the role of evidence - based science in policymaking and as Congress considers significant proposed cuts to federal funding for scientific research that drives innovation, said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.science «is more important than ever right now,» particularly as critics question the role of evidence - based science in policymaking and as Congress considers significant proposed cuts to federal funding for scientific research that drives innovation, said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.&rathan ever right now,» particularly as critics question the role of evidence - based science in policymaking and as Congress considers significant proposed cuts to federal funding for scientific research that drives innovation, said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.science in policymaking and as Congress considers significant proposed cuts to federal funding for scientific research that drives innovation, said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.&raThan a One - Day Activity.»

«The breadth of the winning work and the diversity of outlets in which it appeared demonstrate the vitality of science journalism at a time when public understanding of science is more important than ever.

There's nothing more important than engaging the brightest young minds in science to cure disease, work on climate change, and find new energy sources.»

As for the science itself, the subject matter of the collaboration has changed significantly over the years, suggesting that working together rather than the work itself is the important factor.

STEM - focused high schools are important because they constitute the first U.S. science and mathematics reform that requires whole - school transformation rather than tinkering with peripheral components of an outmoded educational system or serving just a small, select segment of the public school population.

This is what Erwin Chargaff had in mind when he sourly commented that in today's science it is less important to be first than to be last.

«The organization is less relevant than making sure that really important function of support for science continues,» Thomas Burke, the Obama - era head of ORD, told E&E News.

«The important issue is imagining all the ways in which cultures created by multiple source countries rather than few source countries differ,» says Niedenthal, whose work is funded by the National Science Foundation.

Although what it takes to be successful in science has not changed much over the years, in these tough economic times, it is more important than ever for graduate students to start looking for a postdoc position at least a year before finishing their graduate work.

Nonetheless, his conception of the sun (rather than the Earth) at the center of the solar system is considered among the most important landmarks in the history of science.

We can use this fascination to encourage young people to enter the sciences, at a time when that is more important than ever.

The issue of careful scrutiny is particularly important to science and technology, because it is rare for ministers or their advisers to be expert in these areas where sloppy laws can do more harm than good.

Biology is increasingly lab - based, and much important earth science research is now done in front of a computer screen rather than out in the physical world.

Childress argued that science policy discussions could even be bolstered by the inclusion of evangelical voices, and that it is important that evangelicals» ideas be tested and scrutinized by the public rather than just ignored.

The change was long overdue, Green insists, noting that he's simply asking the community to rise to the challenge of tackling the most important questions in fundamental ways rather than doing incremental science.

«A capable government is even more important to keeping the peace than good weather,» said Bear Braumoeller, co-author of the study and associate professor of political science at The Ohio State University.

But I would like to say that if what we are trying to do in science journalism online is get a fresh start and genuinely be better than what we've been doing in the past, then the most important thing is to actually try to fix what has bugged me for years and years as one of the biggest failings of traditional science journalism; which is that 95 percent or more of what passes as science news is driven by what I refer to as the big paper of the week model.

Special quantum systems that promise to solve certain tasks more quickly than a classical computer, however, are already playing an important role in science.

In some industries, top managers have MBA degrees, but in biotechnology, it seems to be more important to have the science background than anything else — it's easier to teach a scientist how to run a business than teach a businessperson how to think like a scientist.

Of course, that's still a big, important percentage, and it's much larger than the other science categories, as the pie chart shows.

Thirty years ago, geneticist Mary - Claire King and biochemist Allan Wilson proposed that changes in how genes are regulated, rather than in the proteins they code for, could explain important differences between chimps and humans (Science, 11 April 1975, p. 107).

An important principle in science is that an object can not change its brightness faster than it takes light to cross its diameter.

Student teams will clash at academic competitions in disciplines even more important than sports: science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM.

«This is important biotechnologically, because if you look at if from the angle of genome editing, the delivery of small genes into cells is much easier than the delivery of large genes,» said Rotem Sorek of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel who was not involved in the work.

Though my parents, who are not scientists, don't always understand exactly what it is that I'm doing on a day - to - day basis, they are supportive at every step, encouraging me to be the best version of myself in scientific pursuits, but reminding me that the world is larger than just science, and that it's important to stay grounded in my personal values.

He noted that while no technique has emerged as a proven clinical approach, the use of human rather than rodent cells as demonstrated by Pollok et al. is an important step in advancing the science behind liver cell transplantation.

«The science is perhaps more important than the technology, as the artificial genetic systems are teaching us volumes about how natural genetic systems operate,» says chemist and co-author Steven Benner via email.

Family Science Night is also an important part of the curriculum for the more than 40 high school and undergraduate participants in the MDI Biological Laboratory's summer fellowship programs.

«As traditional modes of funding for science become less and less plentiful, the need for informed and supportive philanthropic donors is more important than ever.

Revisiting Gattaca at this time is important precisely because it coincides with the emergence of new genetic technologies that are making a then - futuristic vision put forth two decades ago more a matter of science than fiction.

The need for scientists and scientific institutions to effectively communicate about science and its relevance is more important than ever.

«Fat is more important than weight,» says Peter Katzmarzyk, associate executive director for population science at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La. «Excessive fatness is the definition of obesity, not excessive weight — and having too much fat can cause serious health problems.»