Sentences with phrase «ivory towers»

The last thing we want is for scientists to retreat back up into their ivory towers.

«scientists... will not be portrayed as white coated magicians who should be left to work in their ivory towers — their failings will be dealt with in detail.»

They will not be portrayed as white coated magicians who should be left to work in their ivory towers — their failings will be dealt with in detail.»

This is not an academic exercise on the leading edge of discovery — it could well stay in ivory towers»

That's where I met some of the visionaries in the utility and car worlds who'd been trying to get plug - in hybrids out of the ivory towers of theoretical designs and academic modeling.

This is not an academic exercise on the leading edge of discovery — it could well stay in ivory towers, and I suspect Tomas would be happy to remain there (as I would be in my little hydrological world), if not for the critical message that it has for the world.

It seems unlikely that climate scientists are going to retreat to their ivory towers and stick to the science while we have the present vaacum in politics.

Universities in the developed world seeking a place (and a business model) in a century in which knowledge is no longer cached in ivory towers would do well to find ways to «educate for the other 90 percent.»

Or will we scientists continue to sit in our ivory towers playing with our equations?

It is really about time that climate modellers who are posting on this blog came down from their ivory towers and had a look at the real world.

The most talented kids in the country aren't waiting around for the grownups in the ivory towers to get their act together.

Sociologists from their ivory towers tell us that by giving beggars money we will be causing them more harm than good.

Scientists need not speak from their ivory towers, nor do they need to adopt the manipulative tactics of advertisers.

In today's context, this means focusing on what's happening on the ground around you, not in the ivory towers.

Even after years and years of saying, «You don't make your gross income, you and the tax man make your gross income,» no one in the ivory towers has woken up to this reality.

How often have we seen reclusive authors condescendingly sneering at the mob from the top of their ivory towers, smirking at the mere prospect of marketing their books themselves?

And the real ones being hurt by this hard headed approach by the Big Five aren't the suits in their ivory towers but the authors and their readers.

So shall we all rush out and rev up our ebook series, then face down the ivory towers when they want more than print rights?

Instead I'm stonewalled and ignored by aloof «professionals» who'd rather stay in their ivory towers intellectualizing and complaining about the state of the publishing world things instead of making them better for everyone.»

Such people do not live in «ivory towers.»

And second, but more importantly, «Thank you Smith Publicity for rescuing me from the dank ivory towers of Academia.»

That isn't going to come out of traditional publishing unless all the ivory towers suddenly collapse and someone crawls out of the rubble of the mail room to take over.

I'm happy that publishers are finally descending from their ivory towers to seize their companies» destinies in their own hands.

It is time for those in their ivory towers of publishing to pull their heads out of the sand.

Cut off the head of the LA by all means, but to write off the rest as somehow not massively contributing to the operation of education is a monumental mistake and symptomatic of an ivory towers approach.

The issue of teaching character, which until now has mainly been debated within the ivory towers of academia, is suddenly all the rage in policy circles in the UK, in the wake of the report by the All - Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on social mobility, and shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt's latest speech.

The medium can take information that is too often stuck in ivory towers and project it into hearts and minds everywhere.

I commented at the forum that this broad - based alliance is essential, sinces separately we are accused of «fronting for the teachers» union» (parents), «not wanting to be held accountable» (teachers), «goofing off in school» (students) or «being out of touch in their ivory towers» (researchers)!

Artificial Intelligence isn't locked away in ivory towers; it's available in programs that we can use in our working lives today.

Artificial Intelligence isn't locked away in ivory towers; it's available in programs that we can use in our working lives...

«The information we know in the education policy world gets stuck in ivory towers.

At the end of a year when its main competitors, Netflix and Hulu, took significant chunks out of TV's ivory towers, Betas and Alpha House come across as blunted attacks.

On another track, Addica, dominating a feature - length commentary he recorded with Marsh, pulls a Wayne Kramer, accusing critics of living in ivory towers whilst pretentiously likening the film's slow - burn intensity to that of A Clockwork Orange, Badlands, and Le Samourai.

Scientists need not speak from their ivory towers, nor do they need to adopt the manipulative tactics of advertisers.

Why it matters: While ion collisions may seem the stuff of ivory towers, the new approach has implications for energy, space exploration, and national security.

It is a game designed to teach postgraduate scientists and engineers about the problems of surviving outside their ivory towers.

Rumour has it that Britain's universities are jam - packed full of bright ideas struggling to escape from those ivory towers.

Perhaps the ivory towers of education and research could open up more to allow more interactions across disciplines, as well as with the private sector and society at large, to constantly transfer, extend, and broaden new knowledge and technologies.

As a former executive with more than 25 years at the Dow Chemical Co., Wagener has seen many scientists leave the ivory towers and stumble because of what he considers to be cultural issues.

Scientists need to come out of their ivory towers and listen to what others have to say.

It would be wrong however to characterise this seat as being made up of academic quadrangles, ivory towers and Guardian reading students — most people here are not students.

Need to get out of ivory towers

Well, they need to get out of their ivory towers and get back into the real world.»

Labour is two - faced: sometimes it's the trade union rep from the factory, others it's the intellectual bourgeois from the ivory towers.

David, if you think talk of ivory towers is «abuse», then you have been in an ivory tower!!

The professor's views come directly from the ivory towers of the academic elite — far outside the mainstream views of 19th district voters.

If Niblett's purpose was solely focused on ivory towers and navel - gazing Chatham House wouldn't get far.

Perhaps they should come down from their ivory towers.

We all know that Roman Abramovich has free reign of all things Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, but who are the suited men sitting high in their ivory towers overseeing the trials and tribulations of United this season?

unt, so anything we can do to make them feel our frustration from their ivory towers is welcome in my book, especially with an owner like silent Stan Kroenke who has all the warmth and charm of a week old kipper.