Sentences with phrase «many grand theories»

«The simpler statements seem more universal, more in testament to a greater truth or a grander theory,» Silver writes.

«He postulates grand theories while minimising the role played by data... he described his approach..

In these days of rival grand theories» superstrings, the inflationary model, et al.» competing on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal for the status of last word on the ultimate, Davies» book might appear to be just another technician's confident assertion that science will soon have all the answers.

None of the grand theories that single out particular themes and expand them into the whole truth is adequate.

Like Einstein, Hawking then believed that a grand theory of the universe would allow humankind to see into the «mind of God.»

These grand theories are themselves no proof of great intelligence in the people who formulate them.

Even a Grand Theory of Everything will not be the last word in science and the need for representing the faith in synthesis with the knowledge of the day will always be with us.

This is not to say that the grand theory of Marxism has no appeal.

Our technocratic uses of reason seem far more plausible to most educated people today than Marxism's grand theories.

But you boys with your grand theories, shining a retrospective light and revealing nothing.

[1][This means that competition selects outcomes according to their consequences, and falls under the grander theory of «sociobiology».

Physicists will never come to grips with the grand theories of the universe, Penrose holds, until they see past the blinding distractions of today's half - baked theories to the deepest layer of the reality in which we live.

Like Newton's theory before it, which was incompatible with special relativity and was not powerful enough to describe the universe, general relativity has shortcomings that point to a grander theory.

In Edelman's grand theory of the mind, consciousness is a biological phenomenon and the brain develops through a process similar to natural selection.

This freely moving particle, predicted by many grand theories of the universe, is thought to carry a single quantum of magnetic «charge», rather as an electron carries a single unit of electric charge.

They've used that observation in a newly published paper that lays out a Grand Theory of what makes people tick at the office.

For that reason, and also because experimenters like to poke at the marble facades of grand theories, Einstein's ideas are being tested with increasing frequency these days and to extraordinary precision.

He knew as well as anyone that the quantum world could not be captured in his pretty pictures, so he grabbed at whatever he could in his search for the next, grander theory.

I love to tinker in the lab of my home office with grand theories of the human body and how to live a better life.

Barbara's Theory of Integral Nursing (2008) is considered a grand theory that presents the science and art of nursing.

In a sprawling, slickly designed website, Landis presents a multi-part article (he calls it «a living document») discussing his grand theory of Carly Rae Jepsen's thematic concerns.

CINEPHILIA (Part One, Two, and Three) By Nico Baumbach Can movie love be reconciled with so - called Grand Theory?

Tunnel vision sets in; every analysis, whatever the topic, becomes an occasion for the grand theory to appear.

It's not about grand theories in finance and economics.

In these and other letters (which were donated to the Smithsonian Archives of American Art) Bess makes it clear that his paintings were only part of a grander theory, based on alchemy, the philosophy of Carl Jung, and the rituals of Australian aborigines, which proposed that becoming a hermaphrodite was the key to immortality.

So, Victor the Troll, do you have any other Grand Theories that yo wish to share with us?

There is no linkage between FF CO2 emissions & SO2 emissions, a linkage you assume and without which your Grand Theory very rapidly splash - lands and gurgles round the U-bend.

Your Grand Theory seems to rest on the idea that FF - use produces CO2, a GHG which is warming the planet but that, in some bizarre balance, a commensurate quantity of SO2 aerosols must also be produced cooling the planet.

MA: «There is no linkage between FF CO2 emissions & SO2 emissions, a linkage you assume and without which your Grand Theory very rapidly splash - lands and gurgles round the U-bend.»

Here is a little conundrum for you grand theory.

I have a complete, internally - coherent, predictive and thus - far unfalsified grand theory of all credal groups» behaviours in the climate debate.

They can't get away with grand theories and hand - waving.

She showed that American scientists, at least geologists and other Earth scientists, prefer multiple working hypotheses because they were suspicious of «grand theories» and wished to guard against deductive approaches to Earth science, preferring inductive methods.

The issue in Bowles was not the kind that could be decided through any grand theory of statutory interpretation.

This is not quite a grand theory of interpretation and the judicial role.

(1998) 58 Cambridge L.J. 303, and former Justice Michael Kirby of the Australian High Court's ambitious essays, «Towards a Grand Theory of Interpretation: The Case of Statutes and Contracts» (2003) 24 Statute Law Review 95 and «Statutory Interpretation: The Meaning of Meaning», (2011) 35 Melbourne University Law Review 113.

... but as is the problem with grand theories (even when supported by a large body of empirical data)... it may feel like something is missing!

Not exact matches

This dream, called the Grand Unified Theory, would give us a simpler, more elegant understanding of the universe, showing that all the interactions we see are different manifestations of one unified force.

It's easy to imagine — even absent any conspiracy theory and minus any accusations of racism — why a grand jury, and the prosecutor that guides it, might be reluctant to indict a cop.

In a recent article, Mr. Larimer talks about a Grand Unified Political Theory, and the fair distribution of the earth's as if the Earth was his to distribute.

The US Dollar is the «grand unifying theory asset» for nearly any and all «profile» global macro or thematic equities trades in the marketplace right now, as it represents investors being long this «new» version of «economic growth.»

While this fact is perhaps too often taken for granted, Davies makes no attempt to hide his certainty that all ballyhooed attempts to find a Grand Unified Theory of Everything are to some extent self - defeating precisely because of the quite inexplicable, indeed mysterious, effectiveness of mathematics in explaining events in the physical world.

Grand unified theories — which combine the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces into a single mathematical structure — posit symmetries that involve rotations in abstract spaces of five or more complex dimensions.

The Presbyterian report starts and ends blaming everything on the feminist bugbear of patriarchy - that most useful theory of a grand universal conspiracy of all men against all women.

Scientists today are still following his intuition as they seek the grand unifying principle that will unify quantum theory with the theory of relativity to give one overarching explanation of the nature of the universe.

Places like the Grand Canyon also receive a much simpler explanation than the theory (which is rapidly losing favor) that the Grand Canyon was formed over millions of years by a small trickle of water.

I said «some grand unified theory» not really realising that it could cause confusion.

The grand unified theory (GUT) isn't actually relevant with GR, as the GUT is what we have to explain E&M, strong and weak forces.

But, in simple terms, his theory of spontaneous creation implies an overall more grand design — in that the life instructions could not have been created by life itself, but came from somewhere.

In any event, those who during most of the twentieth century were weaving statistics and theories into a grand and confidently told story of the secularization of the world are now having to cope with a quite different story that seems to be writing itself.