Sentences with phrase «many scientific endeavours»

The development of the experimental method during the Enlightenment era meant that curiosity became associated with specific scientific endeavours, justified as seeking knowledge for itsown sake.

The bases of any scientific endeavour «are developed out of the ground plan of nature and are sketched into it.»

Science was «utterly critical» to the economy and the government was determined to make Britain a «magnet for scientific endeavour» for people across the world.

Underfunding threatens not only the US's future but the global scientific endeavour, says the CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Or might it be rather that the supreme achievement of the scientific endeavours of the recent past is to forcibly draw to our attention the necessity to presuppose some hypothetical entity that might conjure the elusive richness of «form» and «mind» from the bare bones of the genes and brain respectively?

When a group of eight people were sealed into Biosphere 2 in 1991, the project was hailed as a groundbreaking scientific endeavour.

WHY do tales of major scientific endeavours, told from the viewpoint of a single participant, rarely make captivating reading?

Prince Charles has long been known as anything but friendly toward biotechnology and genetically modified (GM) food, but his most recent 22 - minute rant amounted to a broadside against the entire scientific endeavour with its, in his mind, excessive rationalism.

They say that instead of splurging so much money each year on a handful of recipients, many more scientists, representing a much greater array of scientific endeavours, should be honoured — a sort of Queen's Birthday honours list for scientists.

«Philosophical Transactions was the first journal dedicated to scientific endeavour and introduced the concepts of scientific priority and peer review.

NEPAD and scientific endeavour are closely intertwined.

But I can only wonder if the scientific endeavours of the past three hundred years amount to that.

Our recommendations are complex with associated resource demand but rarely has such an exciting interdisciplinary scientific endeavour arisen as a solution to a key socially relevant problem.»

Next Wave UK's regular columnist Kat Arney takes a tongue in cheek look at the importance of the tea break for the scientific endeavour.

Confidence, or trust, is an integral part of the scientific endeavour.

The tabloid press is well known for hyping up scientific endeavour, and although some news outlets deliberately fill their columns with hyperbole, it doesn't necessarily mean the science is being misrepresented, it just means the column in question is making a mountain out of a molehill.

Science Foundation Ireland's (SFI) legal remit is to promote, develop and assist the carrying out of oriented basic and applied research in strategic areas of scientific endeavour that concern the future development and competitiveness of industry and enterprise in the State.

Studies and different approaches to quantify species within ecology and in different geographical locations trace back to the beginnings of scientific endeavour and civilisation itself (Humboldt, 1806, Schultes and Reis, 1997).

The event takes place at a pivotal moment for Manchester, with a record amount of investment flowing into the city to support innovation across artistic and scientific endeavours.

«We won't be running these experiments like the labs do, but recreating some of their work in more entertaining or theatrical ways», says Byrne, adding that scientific endeavour can be «more improvisatory and creative than you'd think.»

The work explores the twin themes of scientific endeavour and the landscape of Antarctica.

Computer modelling is an increasingly important part of many scientific endeavours.

Dissent, a core element of true scientific endeavour, is to be crushed.

In particular, his treatment of the methodological underpinnings of science, and the ways in which climate scientists get their scientific endeavours exactly wrong, is developed lucidly.

Sorry, but inciting people for scientific endeavour, no matter how misdirected is a gross waste of money and public resources.

If you could bring yourself to become involved in some field of real scientific endeavour, rather than Climatological Cargo Cult Science, you might be able to help humanity, rather than hinder it.

So, I suppose it was then that I began to see that it was an important area that was really beginning to move, not just into a really important area of scientific endeavour, but had real practical application.

So it's perhaps no surprise that what once seemed like a outlandish idea has recently become a subject of serious scientific endeavour.

The overwhelming majority of scientists are sceptics: the whole nature of scientific endeavour is to check and check and check again for a flaw in your theory or your evidence.

It is a particularly nasty trap in the context of science, because it risks destroying, perhaps for centuries to come, the unique and hard - won reputation for honesty which is the basis for society's respect for scientific endeavour.

The true scandal is the attempt to catapult such behavior into high crime and to dismiss an entire scientific endeavour based on the privately expressed sentiments of a few (a very few) researchers working in an environment of ongoing harassment.

Even within the climate establishment, there are undoubtedly many researchers who worry that their scientific endeavours are guided more by political requirements than by scientific necessity.

If true, it is a particularly nasty trap in the context of science, because it would risk destroying, perhaps for centuries to come, the unique and hard - won reputation for honesty that is the basis of society's respect for scientific endeavour.

It would fall foul of a fundamental tenet of scientific endeavour — namely, that a theory without experimental support is little better than guesswork (24).

Second it isn't very useful to those inside the club (at least for the purposes of any scientific endeavour) precisely because the broader scientific community won't accept any results based on it.

Computer modeling isn't even a scientific endeavour because it isn't real experimentation or data collection.

Students of all age will find inspiring examples of their peers engaged in citizen - based scientific endeavour.

As with any measurement operation in any scientific endeavour, measurement is subject to error.

scientists need to be aware of the dangers of conflicts of interest and to retain a sense of balance, because commercial interests can be a bad influence on scientific endeavour.

But scientists need to be aware of the dangers of conflicts of interest and to retain a sense of balance, because commercial interests can be a bad influence on scientific endeavour.

Not exact matches

It seems that Ham realized the futility of such an endeavour and instead of trying to reconcile YEC tenets with science, he began a campaign to present the scientific community as a cabal of elitist, politically motivated secularists conspiring with the assistance of Satan to undermine the traditional values of American Christians.

Let us thank God forgiving us a Pope who values scientific knowledge and blesses our endeavours.

For us, World AIDS Day is such an initiative, where uniting in the fight against HIV must begin with accepting scientific evidence for the basis and treatment of HIV / AIDS, and acknowledging human responsibility and endeavour as the way to reduce harm, to prevent unnecessary suffering and deaths, and to combat prejudice and discrimination.

The individual skills found in those who have undertaken the considered and logical approach often found in scientific learning and investigation, are the very ones the Party should now endeavour to acquire.

Not so long ago, in the halcyon days before the advent of gigantic international scientific collaborations, high - energy physics was like any other field of academic endeavour.

The Berlin workshop started out with a look at aspects of scientific work that set it apart from «regular» business endeavours.

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It was a global endeavour to rival the space race: billions of dollars invested, a massive international effort of singular scientific, medical, industrial and societal significance.

Seeing his microfabrication endeavours yielding new science led James to found NuNano, in order to bring novel AFM probes to the wider scientific community.

The scientific output of this endeavour is illustrated by six Nobel Prizes in Chemistry (Michel, Deisenhofer, Huber 1988; Walker 1997; McKinnon 2003; Kornberg 2006; Steitz, Yonath, Ramakrishnan 2009, Kobilka 2012), whose breakthroughs derive from diffraction data collected using synchrotron radiation.