Sentences with phrase «of human progress»

The march of human progress has turned more than 40 % of the planet's available land into farmland or cities, and far more is impacted by our activity.

In the course of human progress, it has been far easier to understand the things we make, rather than what makes us.

A prime driver of human progress has been trade, in both goods and ideas.

Nonetheless, every now and then along the trail of human progress a truly seminal mind comes along.

The tune is relevant to Dot Earth in that all of biology, through natural selection, and much of human progress, through surprising innovations, is built on accidents.

For me it's a combination of environment and economics with a healthy dose of the march of human progress.

This «blame» somehow rings false when the ecologists extend the link to the later implications of a secularized technology and a liberal view of human progress.

The above response is interesting ideologically, it shows how much we have bought into the myth of human progress as a church culture.

Whether this global connectivity results in the kind of unified planet theory of human progress envisioned in a line of thinking from Darwin through Havel remains to be seen.

But few were so hopeful as the French philosophe Condorcet in his 1795 history of human progress.

On the other hand, the believer in Heaven, accepting this same reality of a cosmic genesis of the Spirit, must perceive that the mystical evolution of which he dreams presupposes and consecrates all the tangible realities and all the arduous conditions of human progress.

Looking back at 40 years of human progress in 135 countries — 92 % of the world's population --- the report shows that average life expectancy rose from 59 to 70 years, primary school enrolment grew from 55 to 70 percent, and per capita income doubled to more than $ 10,000.

In The Last of Its Kind, Coates imagines himself as the very last human, seeking to convince the landscape surrounding him of the significance of human progress.

Anyone following this blog is aware that there are smart, informed people in this world with completely divergent views of the sources of human progress and problems and the best route forward as populations and appetites crest in coming decades.

The New York Times said this adverb is «undoing 2,000 words of human progress,» a statement that inspired Jerry Seinfeld to respond in the pages of the Times.

Anyone with half a brain and a rudimentary understanding of human history knows that organized religion is responsible for more bloodshed and retardation of human progress than anything else.

(The average age of mortality is one of the best indices of human progress, for it measures what is not solely material.)

Apocalyptic visions flirt with gnostic aeons and Stoic conflagrations, while affirmations of creation lean toward Pelagian schemes of human progress and Epicurean fixations on the here - and - now.

The return to this tradition would once more make it possible to reconcile the existence of national ndependence and political freedom, which are an essential part of European life, with the wider unity of our civilization, and with that higher process of spiritual integration which is the true goal of human progress.»

The line of human progress up till now has been «the forming and re-forming of communities on the basis of growing personal independence» — «functional autonomy, mutual recognition and mutual responsibility.»

Alfred N. Whitehead, scientist, mathematician, and philosopher, has described the path of human progress this way: «The true method of discovery is like the flight of an airplane.

It was «Templeton's [own] belief that rigorous research and cutting edge science are at the heart of human progress.»

1995), «the fine working of the market is close to the heart of western society's self - definition» and they speak about its underlying presuppositions thus: «Indeed for Smith, the market played a role in all forms of human progress.

Let's bring back religious persecution, I say, and drive these mental cases back into their caves, so they can get out of the way of human progress!!

14 George Santayana's The Life of Reason or the Phases of Human Progress (Scribner's, 1905 - 06), can be seen as a naturalization of the Hegelian phenomenology.

Also, eating in a comparable manner to our precursors has been demonstrated on numerous occasions to offer stunning medical advantages, including counteractive action of most maladies of human progress, for example, tumor, coronary illness, Alzheimers, and other interminable conditions that are generally created by horrible eating routine and way of life.

At the very apex of human progress the question was asked, «Where next?»

Although the Copenhagen conference could have been criticized on many fronts, it is hard to imagine that Palin's remarkable statement represents anything other than a misplaced religious end - of - days argument of the type that asserts confidence in human dominion over the earth — and that God will ensure the planet remains fine in the face of human progress, until God decides to end it all and the worthy ascend to heaven.

But of course you're not one of those who do not value their time and go on with ignoring all the benefits of the human progress, and therefore I will tell you how to arrange your searching for matches on the World Wide Web in such a way to be able come across only the best specimens.

Whatever hyped may be the issue of human progress, they are still lagging behind in the mindset.

Jurassic Park was firmly grounded in its source novel's Shelley-esque skepticism of human progress; Minority Report was a prescient dystopian vision of fascism and corporatism run amok.

This latest documentary clarion call about destructive impact we're having on the planet takes the form of an inquiry into the downside of human progress.

Porsche says this model will be even better than the 993 - chassis 911, which is widely acknowledged as the high point of human progress.

Countless organizations and individuals across the world are involved in an international education movement that brings communities and cultures together in the name of human progress.

Another good one is The Mainspring of Human Progress by H. Grady Weaver.

As beautiful as it is sensually overwhelming, CATALIN forces viewers into direct confrontation with the double - edged sword of human progress and hubris.

She was a euphoric Modernist, a believer in the infinite possibilities of human progress.

«The square is a theatre, a celebration of human progress and achievement,» said Coates.