Sentences with phrase «known observations of»
In the early seventeenth century, Galileo pioneered telescopic observations of the Sun, making some of the first known observations of sunspots and positing that they were on the surface of the Sun rather than small objects passing between the Earth and the Sun.
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Last month, the panel of 31 independent scientists charged with reviewing the EPA's draft report stated that the agency's broad conclusion about the mining technique known as fracking is at odds with the evidence and «inconsistent with the observations, data, and levels of uncertainty presented.»
For example, if you notice a worker struggling with one set of tasks but exceeding in another, let him or her know your observations, and make an effort to arrange the workload to a balance more favorable to the person's strengths.
But I would make the observation that if you stumble on to a really important idea that has the potential to be really valuable, know that others will enter into the market precisely because markets are competitive and a lot of money and prestige is at stake.
Other sources of information, informal observations, trial and error, and your personal values and beliefs will no doubt continue to deeply inform your choices about how to raise your kids.
As I point out in the video, his observations showed the masses of clusters were too large, but the numbers he got were far too high, and we now know they must have been in error (or, to be more fair, his uncertainties were too large).
Star Wharton professor and author Adam Grant knows this not just through research and observation but because he is, himself, one of these restless strivers.
I was kind of like I said interested in gambling or at least speculating or figuring things out and then taking a calculated gamble and what they were telling me was don't try, there were saying that no one can beat the market and the stock prices are efficient and just through simple observation looking at the newspaper and they used to have the 52 - week high low prices in the newspaper, it seemed unreasonable that you know the fair price was 51 day and eight months later, it was 120, and that was pretty much every stock had that kind of range every year and it didn't make sense to me that the fundamentals of the underlying businesses were actually changing that much.
I don't know if I can make the same type of observation about silver being sensitive to monetary policy; silver seems to be more sensitive to gold action and industrial activity.
And to those of you I know personally, or who periodically send a thoughtful word, an interesting observation, or an article to share, I'm very grateful for your friendship.
That's why Aristotle commented on it in one of his most well - known observations.
The truth from the ground, based on the extensive footwork due diligence I conduct plus emails from readers around the country reporting similar observations, is that the inventory of home listings of soaring (the published inventory reports by design have 2 - 3 month lag), prices are dropping quickly, the time it takes to sell a home is increasing significantly and, most important, the potential pool of middle class home buyers no longer have an income level that will support the size of mortgage it takes to «buy» a home.
Science is not religion, it is a method of enquiry based upon direct observation which transcends religion (the laws of physics are the same for everyone, no matter how you name God or even whether you believe).
Based on notes of conversations he had with Chanel in 1946, Morand gives us Chanel's observations on friends and rivals like Picasso («He destroyed, but then he constructed»), Misia Sert («Misia is to Paris what Kali is to the Hindu pantheon), Diaghalev («he traveled through Europe in the role of a penniless patron»), Stravinsky (««You're married, Igor,» I told him... and he, very Russian: «She knows I love you.
«In essence, it is a synthesis of the results obtained by Greek astronomy... On the motions of the Sun, Moon, and planets, Ptolemy again extended the observations and conclusions of Hipparchus — this time to formulate his geocentric theory, which is popularly known as the Ptolemaic system» (15th edition, 1975, Macropaedia, Vol.
They are honestly, in my observations having been around them, being around them, as family and aquaintances, very much like I knew many of them to be as tween - agers, then teen - agers, then young adults, following a shallow pop culture of their peer group, and pop Christian happens to be where they are right now.
And we now know that the universe had a definite beginning due to the observations of the COBE sattelite and Hubble telescope.
The material can't be eternal due to what we know of the laws of thermodynamics and the observations I've already noted.
From this work, we know Julius Caesar as a man of action and keen observation, but not one of reflection.
The religion of thinking that they know exactly the truth of the universe through limited observation and hypothesis, where you really kinda do need some faith in the systems you are descrining.
How was Isaiah able to know that the earth is like a «circle» long in advance of actual observation, such as when the Apollo astronauts confirmed that the earth was indeed round in July 1969 from their vantage point on the moon?
I prefaced my comment with the observation that none of you ever address my point, and you are no different.
A comment that stays with me from many years ago, when I first encountered contemplative prayer on a visit to a Carmelite monastery, is a friend's observation that none of us can know how much of what God is doing in the world is brought about in response to the prayers of people we don't know and never see.
«52 The task of science is to increase what is known — to accumulate facts, refine its methods of observation, and render its body of theory ever more abstract.
As the tradition developed, this acute observation is lost, because the tradition is no longer regarded as arising naturally from observation of life but as existing as a mysterious and powerful entity in its own right.
The illusion that the now is either so insignificant and commonplace as to be unworthy of study, or that it is so well known anyhow — without analysis, critical reflection, or even systematic observation — as to be beneath serious notice, has become all too characteristic of a theological tradition that knows perfectly well that we can not understand either God's grace or man's sinfulness without in some fundamental sense understanding the other first.
Yes and that observation with essence of the wonder of that which is human is how I know there is God.
He then writes a book to inform others of his groundbreaking observations of the most significant kind, knowing that many will persecute him and reject his findings for hundreds of years based on their older religious beliefs.
In an empirical observation of human activity and life, a la Hobbes, desire seems to know no end other than death.
No, people who make observations of their surrounding are only a problem for the church.
A theory is valued if it accurately accounts for known observations and yields precise predictions of future measurements.
He was speaking to teachers about education, but his observation applies also to parenting — to parents who know they have an ideal for the concept of the «good» and a relation with a gracious God.
I was not about to try to argue her out of it, but I could not resist — since I did know her well — offering an observation.
We fill out our knowledge of the unity of «Whiskers the cat» and our definition of the species of «cat» through repeated observation - and this knowledge can never be final and absolutely definitive until we know the whole cosmos.
Immediate Intuition in Caritasin Veritate For Edward Holloway every human observation inherently involves a complementary interaction and interdefinition between «me and my environment», a fundamental aspect of which is the relationship between the knowing spiritual mind and ordered matter.
And we know of it only because of the reported observations of the disciples.
Conflicting ideas of what a pastor is, then (and I'm not suggesting you are doing this steve, more a generalised observation) various people trying to impose these conflicting ideas on the position known as «the pastor» while simultaneously ignoring that there is a real person who works in the role.
Yet it comes not by observation, and no man knows the hour of its coming.
Nature is contingent on the divine will and can be known only by observing it humbly.8 These were presuppositions from which science could develop: the order, regularity, and intelligibility of nature, and the necessity of observation and experimentation.
drkstrong on March 15, 2011 @MsSpeakersCorner No body say it was impossible to use the sciiftenic method there just cant ever be proof of a theory because there is always the possibility of a new observation that will show it to be wrong.
He knew that what is essential is a combination of reason and experiment, and without one of them it is just respectively speculation or observation, and without both of them it is not physics.
A theory in its technical usage is something that is more or less verified or an established explanation accounting for known facts or observations, like the theory of relativity or how evolutionary biology is a theory.
On the other hand, the concrete aspect of God is his dependent, related, and contingent actuality; and it, being entirely inaccessible to rational proof, can only be known by direct, empirical observation or «encounter.
I know what I'm talking about, not just from the observation of others, but mostly from the observation of my own unhealthy attraction to charismatic leadership.
Regarding observations of speciation within the fossil record, we now know we shouldn't expect to see Darwin's proposed gradualism given the relatively short time scales and the probability of capture within the fossil record (i.e. new species populations will be small and less likely to be reflected).
This reprobate character is known not only through an individual's own experience with himself as he struggles with impulses too strong for his own strength to overcome, but also through his observation of the world about him, a world in which evil and its works are so terribly apparent, and in whose operations he is so inextricably involved.
You know, understanding the world through observation and rational conclusion, rather than through believing everything that an old book of myths tells us.
Galen was one of the first experimenters we know of in biology; Vesalius developed the tradition of accurate observation and experimentation from Galen.
Without a solid 200 - 400 years of observation, there would be NO WAY to use records to compare now to then, and that would be with GOOD record keeping standards, and even then it wouldn't be entirely conclusive.
Life, the patterns of life, and the force behind life, the life force or God, what creates life are observable but Physicists and Mathematicians can not measure them or apply their mathematics to it due to their limitations or scientific limitations and therefor this life force and God does not exist according to Atheists but the gravity force exists simply because Physicists and Mathematicians can measure this force, speed, acceleration, mass, but still do not know what it is or what creates gravity, it is also based on observation.