Sentences with phrase «is a mysterious science»

Watching the New England Patriots — trailing 21 - zip in the second quarter, down 25 points in the third, 19 points in the hole with less than 600 seconds to go in regulation — rally to win the Super Bowl in overtime, I couldn't help but wonder if there was some mysterious science behind «the miraculous comeback»: something measurable, or at least point - to - able, that captures the transformation of human spirit that drives an individual — or, more inexplicably, a team of separate beings — to see «victory» when «loss» is flashing all around them.

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That's laughable too, but he is correct in claiming that science has no real answers as to why we're here or why every culture in history has had a belief in a mysterious, unseen, omnipotent being.

DO NOT be an apologist or accept the explanation «your mind is too small to understand the greatness of science» or «evolution moves in mysterious ways» when you come upon logical inconsistencies in your belief.

L'Engle challenges us to imagine a God that is bigger, the creator and sustainer of a universe that, as modern science is revealing to us, is much more mysterious and complex than we generally suppose.

If we accept pantheism, if the world is divine, then it must be intrinsically mysterious; in which case it is beyond rational investigationand science should be impossible, or at least blasphemous.

I believe science will eventually understand the laws of this greater, more mysterious universe, but only after scientists admit there is something to understand.

From its very beginning, the universe seems to be the unfolding and disclosing of a mysterious secret potential and inexhaustible depth, aspects of which are only now being brought to light by science.

@chris parker, «As more and more of these giant, mysterious creatures science called dinosaurs were discovered there was a chance that they could have been associated with the dragons of «recorded history» but instead were placed by science by use of the geologic column to an age millions of years ago.»

The goal of science seems to some of them, at least, to be that of eventually eliminating any mysterious region out of which revelation might occur.

Here's something for any doubter to consider: IF there is more to humanity than the physical life we experience on a day - to - day basis, then science will eventually catch up and be able to explain things that we have been told but which remain mysterious.

Contrary to the determinists, who see all events as the predictable result of antecedent causes, physical indeterminists insist that at the sub-atomic level there are happenings which are «uncaused,» arising spontaneously and unpredictably out of a mysterious depth to which our science of causes can not penetrate.

Baden Powell believed that it was within the power of science to make rapid advances in human knowledge in all directions and to unravel sooner or later those mysteries which at the moment seemed miraculous and mysterious.

A proposal to study a mysterious object, with no guarantee that the effort will pay off at the end, is not very appealing to agencies like the National Science Foundation, which expect well - defined goals and concrete results from the research projects they support.

A teacher of science journalism at Emory University, she is author of Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease and co-author of Biowarrior: Inside the Soviet / Russian Biological War Machine.

«This surprising finding may be an important clue to understanding those mysterious parts of the universe that make up 95 percent of everything and don't emit light, such as dark energy, dark matter, and dark radiation,» said study leader and Nobel Laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and The Johns Hopkins University, both in Baltimore, Maryland.

The study, published in Science Translational Medicine, suggests that the mysterious neurological disease may be caused by an autoimmune response to the parasitic proteins.

But now, in a new review published today in Science, neuroscientist John McGann of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, argues that the myth of the nonessential nose is a huge mistake — one that has led scientists to neglect research in a critical and mysterious part of our minds.

Lindqvist says science can be a useful tool in exploring the roots of myths about large and mysterious creatures.

Published for all to see in this week's Science, Kay's approach is being hailed as a milestone in the science of «rhythm genetics», the push by geneticists to understand the mysterious daily, or «circadian», clocks that tick inside most living Science, Kay's approach is being hailed as a milestone in the science of «rhythm genetics», the push by geneticists to understand the mysterious daily, or «circadian», clocks that tick inside most living science of «rhythm genetics», the push by geneticists to understand the mysterious daily, or «circadian», clocks that tick inside most living things.

I might add, you know, there are so many things that Martin Gardner did that are so important to me, but I should mention his first, the first book of his that I ever saw, which was Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, which I remember very clearly running into at age 14 in a friend's book [shelf] and that book just, what's the word, the scales fell from my eyes I think is the expression; meaning that I, up until age 14, even though I had grown up in a family, my father was a physicist and I was very exposed to science, I never really thought too much about, I mean, things that, sort of, you might say superstitions or just, sort of, I don't know, mysterious [forces] in the world, you know ESP and paranormal things and predicting the future and such Science, which I remember very clearly running into at age 14 in a friend's book [shelf] and that book just, what's the word, the scales fell from my eyes I think is the expression; meaning that I, up until age 14, even though I had grown up in a family, my father was a physicist and I was very exposed to science, I never really thought too much about, I mean, things that, sort of, you might say superstitions or just, sort of, I don't know, mysterious [forces] in the world, you know ESP and paranormal things and predicting the future and such science, I never really thought too much about, I mean, things that, sort of, you might say superstitions or just, sort of, I don't know, mysterious [forces] in the world, you know ESP and paranormal things and predicting the future and such things.

The new tooth also contains DNA unlike that of Neandertals or modern humans, suggesting that Denisovans interbred with an even more mysterious branch of the human family tree — one that is either unknown to science, or known only from fossils without preserved DNA.

The latest in birthday science proposes that the vertebrate with the longest life span yet measured is the mysterious Greenland shark.

Music has an undeniable power over mind and body — and the science behind its mysterious sway is a hot topic at the moment.

He told Live Science in an email that he was «waiting for my tea water to boil,» when he decided to take a look inside a mysterious stack of cardboard boxes, which had been moved into the room several months before.

The results, published in the journal Science on 27 March 2015, show that dark matter interacts with itself even less than previously thought, and narrows down the options for what this mysterious substance might be.

Illustrating these tales with his own charming sketches, renowned Russian - born physicist Gamow covers the gamut of science from the Big Bang to the curvature of space and the amount of mysterious genetic material in our bodies (DNA had not yet been described).

From 2015 to 2016, citizen scientists — people like Bourassa who are excited about a science field but don't necessarily have a formal educational background — shared 30 reports of these mysterious lights in online forums and with a team of scientists that run a project called Aurorasaurus.

Is belief in a deeply mysterious unknown root of the universe such a bad thing for science, even if it is perceived through the framework of Christian concepts and imagerIs belief in a deeply mysterious unknown root of the universe such a bad thing for science, even if it is perceived through the framework of Christian concepts and imageris perceived through the framework of Christian concepts and imagery?

I genuinely don't know whether science will answer those deep and at present mysterious questions; I am confident that if science can't answer them, nothing else can.

Nothing in science is as mysterious as quantum mechanics — except, perhaps, the mechanics of the mind.

Mindscapes is our column on brain science with a difference: we meet people who live with the world's most mysterious neurological conditions

Mindscapes is our new column on brain science with a difference: we meet people who live with the world's most mysterious neurological conditions

The science of why breathing falters is still young, but already fresh insights are spurring investigators to develop new tools for pinpointing the causes of mysterious cases and devising ways that clinicians can help patients breathe easier.

Thanks to modern advancements in technology and the burgeoning field of «citizen science,» new information about gregarious and mysterious whale sharks is being revealed in a study slated to publish on November 29 in BioScience.

The data collection of the Great Red Spot is part of Juno's sixth science flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops.

Saturn's Icy Moons Are a Little Less Mysterious Thanks to Cassini's Long Mission: Perhaps its greatest contribution to science is helping us learn about the many icy moons circling Saturn and its elegant rings.

One of the most mysterious phenomena in the universe, black holes are the subject as much debate as they are fascination for science...

In the classic 1973 Arthur C. Clarke science fiction novel «Rendezvous With Rama,» a mysterious object is detected outside the orbit of Jupiter as it rapidly approaches the inner solar system.

Claudia Mignone and Rebecca Barnes take us on a tour through the electromagnetic spectrum and introduce us to the European Space Agency's fleet of science missions, which are opening our eyes to a mysterious and hidden Universe.

Liability insurance, health insurance, peer pressure, lack of time, and other factors often keep them from investing in the education required to help the millions of people suffering from «mystery» symptoms which, when you look at the science, are not always that mysterious.

His collaborators include geneticist and former Energyne employee Kate Caldwell (the gifted, Oscar - nominated Naomie Harris, not breaking a sweat) and mysterious government operative Agent Russell (a very amusing Jeffrey Dean Morgan) who gets to say things like «when science soils the bed, I'm the guy called in to change the sheets.»

A unique blend of film noir, horror, and science fiction, Alex Proyas» underrated film about a man accused of murder in a mysterious city where the sun never seems to shine is beloved by those who've seen it, which isn't as many people as it should be.

Once again teaming with Michael Shannon (returning to the starting role after a bit part in Mud), this is Nichols branching out into new territory, a science fiction road movie where Shannon's character is forced to go on the run after discovering his son has mysterious powers.

The film is a science fiction thriller starring Sharlto Copley (District 9) that explores the first manned mission to Jupiter's mysterious moon, Europa.

For Philadelphia high school science teacher Elliot Moore (Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg) what matters most is finding a way to escape the mysterious and deadly phenomenon.

Though the science of salt production and erosion is mysterious, it appears unlikely land - speed racing causes the problem.

And what's the connection between her off - hand suggestion to push a car into a river, a ship in a bottle, a mysterious beast loose on the moor, and the controversial author of The Science of Living Forever?

Elantris is brilliant fantasy - science - fiction, combining a cleverly thought - out world with intriguing politics, mysterious religions, and surprisingly real characters.

As the experiment continues, their mutual existence is threatened, not only by the uncertainties of untested science, but also by a mysterious stalker.