Sentences with phrase «on pure sciences»

They may have seen it as a political infringement on pure science, but to me, it looked like the lab's insulated existence had an unintended dark side.

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The «students» tend to be scientists and academics who are working on big science challenges — hairy problems in biotech and pure technology — funded by the NSF.

This understanding of the limited scope of scientific method had been generally accepted since Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781); but in nineteenth - century evolutionary parlance it took on the specific meaning that «all beginnings and endings are lost in mystery,» a phrase that became commonplace in the sciences and social sciences as a way of dismissing or circumventing probing questions that sought to assess the larger implications or consequences of scientific analysis.

Considering the proofs for the existence of a god are based almost exclusively on pure logic, or a mixture of logic and science, your statement is a bit laughable.

Intellectually, there are growing numbers of scientists, technicians, philosophers, and scholars who practice an «advocacy science and scholarship» which challenges head - on conceptions of science, technology, and scholarship as value neutral activities of pure and disinterested elites.

After listening for some time he could contain himself no longer and told them straight out that unless they had studied the pure sciences for their own sake for at least ten or fifteen years, they should stay silent on such questions.

Some are based on pure logic, some based on science and material causation, others on a mix of the two.

In strict science, we can only write down the bare fact of concomitance; and all talk about either production or transmission, as the mode of taking place, is pure superadded hypothesis, and metaphysical hypothesis at that, for we can frame no more notion of the details on the one alternative than on the other.

Emphasis on the social utility of science also tends to lead to the neglect of pure science.

In terms of scientific policy these figures seem to reflect a disproportionate emphasis on applied work and on the physical sciences, to the neglect of pure research and biology, as well as of the social fields whose growth is essential if technology is to contribute to human welfare.

Like all pure science, this theoretical work is disinterested in the sense of «seeking to put aside all extraneous, private and personal interests while it concentrates on its objects for their own sake only».

Such a science would be a mechanics of transformation, of which our mechanics of translation would become a particular case, a simplification, a projection on die plane of pure quantity.

I'm a non-believer... (thank god)... but reading all these comments on this religious nonsense is amazing... I get it when third world illiterates regurgitate the scripture... but for the rest of humanity it's pure science fiction... can't beat it... it's a real money maker... let's take money and tax exemption out of the religious equation especially for the mega churches... and we'll see how long it lasts... anybody got a stop watch...

Science could not rely on pure reason to generate theories, still less on Aristotle's «logically necessary» conclusions.

Theology differs from such modes of thinking about God and man because it is a pure science, disinterested as all pure science is disinterested, seeking to put aside all extraneous, private and personal interests while it concentrates on its objects for their own sake only.

I routinely see basic statistical and logical errors in papers on human medicine that I do not believe would pass muster in a, shall we say, purer science.

«I think what's going on here is pure politics and it's absolutely shameful,» Iona College political science professor Jeanne Zaino told CBS 2's Tony Aiello on Thursday.

Approximately 50 applications are received annually, and on average three or four students from pure and applied sciences end up winning the award.

Although this program is not focused on science alone, candidates coming from the pure and applied sciences are encouraged to apply.

To fund workshops geared to students, postdocs, and young researchers, the group draws on resources from regional and international government funding agencies [such as the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)-RSB-, and international agencies including UNESCO and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

Both Jones and Woodcock entered the area of regulatory affairs from pure science backgrounds and attribute their extensive knowledge in those other fields to years of on - the - job training as they worked at different levels of their respective companies.

I see some validity to this point; that is why The End of Science focused on pure rather than applied research.

In my paneled session on resource scarcity, I end my 3 - minute «pitch» hoping for not much more than small strides toward putting the problem of global forest sustainability — the pure science of which we all seem to agree is largely done — into the hearts and hands of some of these mind - blowingly successful businessmen and social entrepreneurs.

He went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in the natural sciences and engineering from the National Polytechnic School (EPN) in Quito, followed by a Master of Science degree in pure mathematics.

The outline of five kingdoms of life drawn from an influential 1969 Science paper was based largely on nutritional habits (bottom right) instead of pure evolutionary relationships.

Before meeting its fiery demise in Saturn's atmosphere on Friday, Sept. 15, NASA's groundbreaking Cassini mission to Saturn had spent 13 years redefining our view of the beautiful ringed gas giant — but its discoveries went well beyond pure science.

I loved all of my courses focusing on the pure biology side of neuroscience and use that foundation daily, but I would have never discovered my love for the technical side of science without getting to work with Dr. Nyhus in EEG, and learn about MRI and other medical imaging technology.

Jodrell Bank is also on the UK shortlist for UNESCO World Heritage Site status in recognition of its international importance as «a unique site which reflects the heritage of pure science with the authenticity of ongoing scientific research and provides accessibility to the general public».

A few I love right now include the online 200 - Hour Meditation Teacher Training with Charlie Knoles (The Veda Institute) on mindbodygreen, the 100 - Hour Teacher Training at The Path in NYC (Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science, The Path and Pure Yoga), and Journey Meditation's 100 - Hour Teacher Training in NYC (Journey Meditation Teacher Training Program).

This is pure cheesy spectacle, as bad as anything you'd find on «Mystery Science Theater 3000,» and with plenty of absurd dialogue for the hecklers to ridicule.

Solaris is primarily recommended for those who love science fiction in its purest of forms, like 2001: A Space Odyssey or Blade Runner, and especially for those who are familiar with the novel and previous film but are curious to see another take on the subject.

For example, I had a book I did called «On Top of the Dead» which was a pure science fiction story with aliens and everything.

From then on I bought every comic I could find with a superhero on the cover, along with tons of other comics with science fiction themes, or pure adventure, or even some with Ducks.

Many pet owners think they're doing what's best for their dogs when it comes to food, but in reality they rely on pure instinct more than science.

The patina of science — and a short track record of success on the farm — lent credibility to the idea of a closed registry of «pure» stock.

On the one hand, something feels too akin to pure showmanship rather than to art or science, despite the half inch of forward visibility, as if to give new relevance to Michael Fried's infamous dismissal of Minimalism as theater.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

Their basic premise of corruption is an inversion, pure and simple, they are the ones corrupting science with malicious claims, along with this action they make money, appear on Fox news or some British tabloid to further book sales.

If that conclusion was based on solid empirical science then so be it, but when such a story goes out on a pure model study (not yet peer - reviewed) with significant imperfections, it may do a lot of damage in the real world.

A review of Nye's educational background reveals more of an emphasis on engineering than pure science.

Unfortunately, for the public, this science journal and the mainstream press now almost exclusively rely on «plausible» and pure speculations by scientists who are seeking new funding for their research.

Science Corrupted: It's «the hottest year on record», as long as you don't take its temperature — Activist James Hansen's claims based on «pure conjecture» — Hansen's Climate Con: «The parts of the world which GISS shows to be heating up the most are so short of weather stations that only 25 per cent of the figures are based on actual temperature readings»

There are other blogs where the pure science is debated, and others have their own perspective on the politics of climate change.

It was reams and reams of political blather and pure naivete dressed up as science, including Al Gore's pontifications (with documentation of multiple errors on his part), but far from trying to reign that in James Hansen and other scientists seemed to egg it on.

In responding to some of the comments that have expressed disapproval at my word choice, I offer apologies to those who were expecting a pure discussion on science.

Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, wants us to believe that UN emissions reductions negotiations are about nothing more than pure science.

So in order to keep their religion pure, the proponents of CAGW need to censor any posts which show just how much sound science there is on the side of the deniers / skeptics.

I personally believe that there is an urgent necessity of investing more funding in scientific methodologies alternative to the traditional GCM approach and, in general, to invest more in pure climate science research than just in climate GCM engineering research as done until now on the false claim that there is no need in investing in pure science because the «science is already settled».

The work we've done on that — for instance as seen in the Shindell et al, 2012 paper has used developments in the model that we're done for pure science interest.

It is, in fact, pure fraud: it was created simply in an attempt to get round American restrictions on bringing religion into public school science classrooms.