Sentences with phrase «on human ingenuity»
For now we will have to rely on human ingenuity to come up with the tools needed to see planets bathed in urban light.
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«From a standing start 240 years ago — a span of time less than triple my days on earth — Americans have combined human ingenuity, a market system, a tide of talented and ambitious immigrants, and the rule of law to deliver abundance beyond any dreams of our forefathers.»
«From a standing start 240 years ago — a span of time less than triple my days on earth — Americans have combined human ingenuity, a market system, a tide of talented and ambitious immigrants, and the rule of law to deliver abundance beyond any dreams of our forefathers -LSB-...]
Nigeria neglected the one resource Singapore capitalized on — human ingenuity.
see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...
This means that as human ingenuity in controlling the natural world increases, the potential for affecting the physical and biological environments on earth (and presumably, elsewhere in the universe) is greatly enhanced.
New York's diplomatic salons are a long way from the heatwaves and frosts of South Australian farming, of spreading mulch and double and late pruning, of buying more expensive water, of gambling your livelihood on crops and weather and human ingenuity.
On the contrary, they are likeably tenacious and their growing ingenuity and confidence help them to develop into rounded, human characters.
The heart of the film focuses on the sea journey, during which the human demonstrates that he can think with great ingenuity and the tiger shows that it can learn.
On the other hand, I would rather celebrate this treasure - trove of human ingenuity.
This build, fail, assess, refine pattern — as old as human ingenuity itself — can exist in classrooms, as I described a few years back in a piece on «Breaking Things on a Path to Breakthroughs.»
Our paper on the nitrogen cycle shows, as an example, how human ingenuity, by inventing an artificial «enzyme» that can convert the abundant gas, N2, into ammonium, changed the cycle for that element.
Simon (who was wise in the ways of market dynamics and human ingenuity) took Ehrlich up on the bet and famously won $ 10,000 in 1990.
The Wonders of Carbon Nearly every new product that human ingenuity has devised on the road of human progress is a carbon - based product.
«Already influential is work he did on climate engineering, which found that when global warming was posed as a problem that could be solved through human ingenuity, not by limiting growth, hierarchical - individualists were more likely to support action.»
PF: While human ingenuity seems almost endless, do you think it's harmful to rely solely on technology to confront the challenges that global warming poses?
Technology and human ingenuity have dramatically reduced the human impact on the environment.
«Many of these alternatives, such as nuclear power and geoengineering, are likely to convey cultural resonances that affirm rather than threaten hierarchical and individualist confidence in the power of human ingenuity to overcome environmental constraints on economic production.»
But in a nutshell, it's that this Neo-Malthusian pessimism — as warped and wrongheaded today as it was in the era of doom - monger Thomas Malthus (1766 to 1834)-- is based on fundamental misconceptions about the ingenuity of the human species and about the nature of economic growth.
Resource optimists believe that the primary constraints on resource availability are the ingenuity of humans in finding new and innovative ways to meet the resource requirements to meet human needs.
On Thursday, Jan. 15, Future Tense will hold an event in Washington, D.C., titled «How Will Human Ingenuity Handle a Warming Planet?»
On the other extreme you have the humanists who view human welfare as paramount and human ingenuity as boundless, so even if real global temperature effects are completely irrelevant.
This special dispenses with controversy, partisan debates and political stalemates and focuses on the beauty and bounty of the planet, human ingenuity, and the many reasons to be optimistic about our future.
Some might say that the community infrastructure levy («CIL») is just a tax on developers to fund infrastructure, but a recent appeal case showed that it's also a handy yardstick with which to measure human ingenuity...