Sentences with phrase «of human inventions»

The do - over is one of the greatest of human inventions.

Meaning and function of the depicted often remain unclear but the highly evolved machines and seemingly futuristic devices from research, medicine and industry elicit a deep fascination for the possibilities of human inventions.

As Carl Sagan says of writing, these imaginative acts are «perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another... proof that humans can work magic.»

Moyer: Yeah, with our good riddance section, we looked a lot of human inventions that we thought, you know, their time has come and gone.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs.

Dyer pictures a heavenly city full of human inventions.

Their point is not simply to document or celebrate the variety of human invention, but to remind us, as Herbert did, how many are the avenues of grace that can lead us into the presence of God.

But in the German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach (1804 - 1872) the privileging of Christian discourse and the distinction between vulgar religion and rational theism both dissolve, and all talk of God is unmasked as the product of human invention.

It is a process that has involved various levels of human invention, expressing itself mainly in the development of technology and various other fields of human knowledge and endeavor, and I should add emphatically the various stages of human hubris that has expressed itself in the oppression and conquest of peoples by other peoples.

The law on non-contradiction of a human invention.

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Lore Ross Jewelry Gallery, 2nd Floor, Ballantine House Whether it is made of natural miracles or marvels of human invention and skill, jewelry has adorned the human body since prehistoric...

Human necessity has ALWAYS been the mother of human invention.

Where one person sees the majesty of human invention, another sees the excessive gaseous waste being dumped into our skies on a daily basis (some even see it as a nationalistic tribute to our great nation).

Given the history of human invention, it is inevitable that some superior substitute will be found, and we will stop using large quantities of oil for the same reason we no longer make flint tools.

Not exact matches

Smart devices may be one of the most important inventions in human history, but they have certainly done little toward eliminating adult attention deficit disorder (AADD).

Yesterday's ruling effectively said that Feng Zhang's adoption of the technique in human and mouse cells was, in fact, a new and patentable invention rather than an «obvious» extension of Doudna's and Charpentier's work.

Perhaps most intriguing is how Johnson can relate seemingly unrelated inventions - such as the invention of air conditioning - to the largest migration of humans in history.

Bitcoinist: As an assistant professor of economics, what do you think Bitcoin can be compared to as far as human inventions go?

The ramifications of real - time communications — instantly connecting every human on earth with every other human on earth — are even more important than the invention of moveable type and the printing press more than 500 years ago.

The greatest invention made by human is «wheel» which improved quality of life for humans allover the world.

-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Peter Carr, 10 August 1787): «All natural institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.»

Maybe the Bible is a total human invention and God, should he exist, created the universe just as science sees it, leaving zero trace of his existence?

It is as a creature of wants that a human being has acquired, not only other characteristics that have been said to distinguish him (his disposition to make things, to fabricate, and his invention and use of tools), but also his peculiar attitude toward the world around him: both positive and intelligent.

And yet, an invention was perhaps needed to free humans of an overbearing community that subordinated the individual too much to a place in the community and the cosmos.

The Invention of the Human is laced with swipes at these spoilsports who, like Toto in Oz, would pull aside the curtain and reveal the chicanery of it all.

To make this point is to disagree with the subtitle of Harold Bloom's recent opus, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, which credits Shakespeare with the creation of the modern self.

But unlike the artists of whom Wilde wrote — who see the world through the brushstrokes of other painters until, via their own brushstrokes, they compel the world to reproduce the types they have invented — Bloom wants to claim that Shakespeare's invention of human types came from himself and himself only, from a «preternatural ability,» without relying «on authority, or authorities.»

The non-existent god I don't believe in doesn't save the day, their is no «salvation for the christians», but maybe, in the late afternoon sunlight, while tracking a dust mote through the air, it might be that human invention of «god» was an attempt to take away «sin» so that we could find the beautiful, and ethical, and loving within ourselves and others.

Social status is an irrelevance, a human invention of no spiritual importance; one can not allow the human evaluation of an occupation's importance to be placed above the judgment of God who put you there.

It seems to me almost incredible that an invention of the human mind and the structure of the universe coincide.

It is always approximated, but as such is an intellectual system, a great, ingenious invention of the human spirit.

Let us now reflect on what mathematics is: in itself, it is an abstract system, an invention of the human spirit which as such in its purity does not exist.

The actual evidence that every Christian observes (but ignores) as they attend church — that being: The evidence suggests that the church, every church, is operating just as one would expect, if it were simply the product, the invention, of human beings.

The plunge into space, the acquisition of new weapons, the breakthroughs in medical and other sciences are shaped largely by their own internal dynamics... The human being, while being the inventor, is simultaneously the prisoner of the process of invention.10

God literally became a man in order that the human categories of spirituality could be recognized as truly divine, and not the mere invention of a frightened race seeking some means of converting a miserable and ephemeral existence into a dignified and permanent purchase upon the existence of the universe.»

This is done, in this remarkable human family of which we are all a part, with demonic craft by the powerful, in an absolutely dazzling array of forms (if necessity is the mother of invention, covetousness and lust are the parents of ingenuity), upon well - established but shamelessly fraudulent justification, usually in the broad sense religious and sometimes even specifically theological.

His knowledge of modern linguistics led him to assert: «Language is a human invention, in that it reflects social convention regarding the relationship between the sound and the meaning.

God is most likely an invention of humans.

Calendars are a human invention (the one in use in the US is a spin - off of the Roman one, with Norse influences).

* Much of what we do for church today originated from Greco - Roman customs (the practices of pagans) and human - made inventions.

The Founding Fathers were leery of any notion of «rights» that were derived solely from «human» invention, because they saw the shortcomings AS WELL as the benefits of Enlightenment thought in Europe.

Between the two passages, we have the Fall (human autonomy), the establishment of the disorder of powers, and the invention of technique, expressly attributed to Cain (Gen. 4:17 - 22).

But as this unmaking of religion reveals that religion is «true», in the sense that it is an invention of human beings to compensate for and to sublimate their real wretchedness, a second kind of criticism has to follow: religion has to be made false, i.e., the secular world has to be changed.

As Steiner's Hitler asks, «Was there ever a crueler invention, a contrivance more calculated to harrow human existence, than that of an omnipotent, all - seeing, yet invisible, impalatable, inconceivable God?»

God is simply an invention of the mind due to human incapacity to solve problems on their own, the incapacity to find answer to questions and the incapacity to cope with reality.

God, always on the safe side, stationed one of his angels with a sword (because guns were not yet invented by men and for some curious reason angelic inventions seem to always lag one step behind human inventions) at the entrance of the garden to keep Adam and Eve and their little youngin's away.

Does it proceed from within, being conceived and ensued by psychic forces analogous to our human power of invention?

if you believe it is a supernatural being that gives you that strength that is your issue,, but humans have been finding solutions to their dilemmas for eons, long before the invention of said gods.

Understanding, discovery, invention... From the first awakening of his reflective consciousness, Man has been possessed by the demon of discovery; but until a very recent epoch this profound need remained latent, diffused and unorganized in the human mass.