Sentences with phrase «much less science»

An engineer may analyze the data and conclude that the planet is warming unacceptably, and that there is questionable probability of being able to control it, but certainly we could reach a concensus of what we might do to adapt to it, as humans have done for more than 10,000 years with much less science and technology at their disposal.

«Never forget that climatology is not even a field, much less a science: «Rather, the atmospheric greenhouse mechanism is a conjecture... the radiative component of heat transfer of CO2, though relevant at the temperatures in combustion chambers, can be neglected at atmospheric temperatures.

Not exact matches

'' [W] e expect it to be much less expensive than the prime mission while still providing new and exciting science,» John Grunsfeld, chief of NASA's science mission directorate, said in a press release.

The movies rarely win critical accolades, much less Oscar nominations, and to date, no science fiction movie has ever gone home with the statuette.

The affront to science is that it claims to be a theory yet it is untestable and much less elegant, less simple than evolution.

I find it hard to take this event seriously, as Bill Nye is hardly even an engineer, much less a scientist who has spent any time whatsoever studying evolution or the hard sciences.

But your knowledge of science is so much less than so many Catholic Priests such as Gregor Mendel (1822 - 1884) the father of modern genetics, Georges Lemaître (1894 - 1966) the person who proposed the Big Bang Theory and Stanley Jaki Born in Hungary, he earned doctorates in Systematic Theology and Nuclear Physics, is fluent in five languages, and has authored 30 books.

@BillyD:»... if a reliable witness tells me he has experienced something which modern science, in all it's glory can not explain, much less degrade, then the simplest rationale is to accept that he has indeed had an encounter with the supernatural.»

My argument is that if a reasonable, sane and reliable witness tells me he has experienced something which modern science, in all it's glory can not explain, much less degrade, then the simplest rationale is to accept that he has indeed had an encounter with the supernatural.

Science makes absolutely no attempts to undermine, discredit, or prove false, much less attack any of the thousands of religions and Gods man has created.

that is not a scientific statement (science can't even define life itself, much less when it begins).

you're appealing to scientific findings as a basis for compassion... and yet science can not even define LIFE... much less compassion.

But humankind suffers from a sickness more profound than medical science can even describe, much less cure.

This is important to our current argument because it shows that our common sense — and even our medical science — recognizes that even our physical health, much less reality as a whole, can not be reduced to physical processes alone.

Bulletin editorials have criticized the tendency of scientists to become «morally irresponsible stooges in a science factory»; and yet they have recognized that in pure research and even in some applied fields it is impossible to predict all uses of new discoveries, much less what their wider effects will be.

Legalisms, of this day's timeliness, dare I say convolutes and discombobulates the suggestiveness recognitions upon physicalities of the very timid bunglings of inward inter-fractals of cosmological paradigms not fully understood by the masses and seldomly aspired upon by science abridgements being too nauseatingly complex to be meaningfully understood by laymen and much less so by the commoners who could really care less.

In fact, «the more the elementary particle physicists tell us about the nature of the fundamental laws, the less relevance they seem to have to the very real problems of the rest of science, much less of society.»

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Do not also the atheists have faith in much of sciences theories that many atheists can less understand yet do remain faithfilled by thoughtless amalgams in obscured relativities?

No one will ever know enough about science, life, death, love, God, or even themselves to fully understand it, much less predict what the future holds.

And he needed no less, Gleick might have added, what three centuries ago Giambattista Vico was calling fantasia, that faculty of imaginative understanding so conspicuously lacking in the Enlightenment absolutists who, as Isaiah Berlin has pointed out, did so much to create the rift between the sciences and the humanities.

The Universe, known and unknown, is possibly not the most used definition of God, at least in the western world... but it is the Pantheistic version that jives so much more with science and is not a misappropriation of the smaller definitions of God, merely an unfamiliar definition to those with less knowledge of various more advanced religious and philosophic thought, within and outside those religions... The idea of Pantheism also thoughtfully considers why there is, rather than ridiculing, such a wide range of philosophical and ritual beliefs from a scientific perspective... without having to classify large groups of people, as senseless idiots from one end or destined for hell from the other.

The social - science literature is rife with examples of small, high - quality programs that seem to become much less effective when they expand and replicate.

I was somewhat reassured to see, when visiting some secondary comprehensive schools in the UK, that their science labs were smaller and much less well - equipped than the ones I could remember.

Modern safety precautions also mean that there is less for the student to do and more for the teacher, meaning that much of science is observed demonstrations rather than hands - on experimenting.

I don't really put too much stock in academic authority of people in social sciences until they talk about testable predictions like real scientists do; or at the very least deal with # s. Without that, they're just people who have opinions that are no more nor less valid than anyone who isn't an academic social scientist.

And that suggests today's budget may be silent on, or vague about, what the president is seeking for some science agencies, much less for specific programs and cross-agency initiatives.

For most species, the overall rate of harmful mutations was much less than 0.5 per individual per generation, the researchers report in the 13 October issue of Science — too low to justify sexual reproduction.

In the three other categories — biological science (including biomedical), computer science, and engineering — Ph.D. recipients are much less likely to hold faculty positions than they are in math and the physical sciences.

Women scientists with Ph.D. s are much less likely than men to travel in pursuit of career - enhancing postdoc appointments, according to a survey from Israel's Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, as reported in The Jerusalem Post.

In a paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, the researchers note that the ancient Earth harbored a mantle that was as much as 200 degrees Celsius hotter than it is today — temperatures that may have brewed up more uniform, less dense material throughout the entire mantle layer.

Today, it is much less common than it used to be for people with a good general science background but no specialized degree to enter the food industry, Hartel says.

On that scale, personalities become less important and the role of science and technology becomes much more clear.

Any researcher or graduate student who has ever performed a lab experiment knows that achieving an accurate, reproducible result is often less of a science and more of an art — and certainly much more complex than some scant «methods» sections would lead one to believe.

Men dominate S&E professorships, regardless of field and race.10 Among the top 50 universities in chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering, at least 69 % (most times this number is much higher) of the professors are men, according to a report recently released by University of Oklahoma chemistry professor Dr. Donna Nelson.9 The lack of female professors was far greater among minority women.9 Although the number of master's degrees and doctorates increased for every racial and gender category, except for white males, 1 white — and, to a lesser extent, Asian — men constituted the clear majority of S&E graduate and faculty positions between 1990 and 1999.9

What is NOT OK is to forget about basic science, such as that gravity would be much less that far underground.

China's science spending «is just so much less than America,» says neuroscientist Guosong Liu of the School of Medicine at Tsinghua University.

English - proficient foreign - national science trainees in their first 2 years of graduate school are likely to be offered a teaching assistantship instead of a research assistantship, because their lack of experience and training tends to limit their effectiveness in the research lab and because the amount of service required for a teaching assistantship (typically 20 hours / week or fewer... often much fewer) is less than for a research assistantship.

The researchers also monitored the advanced math and science courses that students chose to take in high school, concluding that the girls who had been discouraged by their elementary school teachers were much less likely than the boys to opt for advanced courses.

But really better training of science teachers, better pay for teachers, more investment in school infrastructure, building, science equipment — that's a huge challenge for the nation, in which we are clearly losing internationally just by every ranking; we do much less well than we should.

In contrast, those in the physical sciences put much less weight, 0.20 and 0.10, respectively, on those issues.

By this comparison, NSFC's budget is much less than the total funding for basic sciences in the U.S. China's 2012 GDP was about half of the United States»; China's total societal expenditure on R&D, at about $ 165 billion last year, is also about half of the U.S.'s.

Tumors are home to diverse immune cell types, some of which remain much less explored than T cells and could also control cancer progression» says Mikael Pittet, PhD, director of the Cancer Immunology Program in the MGH Center for Systems Biology and senior author of the Science paper.

Poets since 1818 have not found science much less antithetical.

Management issues were much less intrusive on the science.

Chu told Johnson he is awaiting a report from William Brinkman, head of the department's Office of Science, on what DOE plans to do next, but admitted that the next iteration of DUSEL is likely to be much less ambitious.

The US National Science Foundation's investments directed toward climate change research have increased substantially since 1987, but biodiversity expenditures have increased much less and have held steady since 2004.

Results of the study by Janet Yang, a University at Buffalo expert on the communication of risk information related to science, health and environmental issues, suggest that holding a collective, communitarian belief system contributed to altruistic behavior, while those who hold more individualistic values are less likely to be altruistic regardless of how much risk is triggered.

Although scientific merit may still be the key to the success of smaller research grants, such as those from China's National Natural Science Foundation, it is much less relevant for the megaproject grants from various government funding agencies, which range from tens to hundreds of millions of Chinese yuan (7 yuan equals approximately 1 U.S. dollar).

However, the most science - literate conservatives were much more likely to disagree with the statement than less - knowledgeable peers.