Sentences with phrase «primary purpose of science»

The perception that the primary purpose of science was the manufacture of war machines, he said, was an «insidious penetration» that could come about unwittingly.

I think that there are at least 3 equal primary purposes of science: understanding (not the whole universe, but parts of it); predicting (as with weather, tides, eclipses, etc); and making things that work (or stuff that works, as in the case of medicines, fuel etc..)

Not exact matches

My purpose, and I presume that of all others who have approached the subject from the scientific side, has been to find a metaphysics which, with the minimum of speculation, finds a place for the obviously primary reality of the stream of consciousness, while fully accepting the findings of science.

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«The primary purpose of [Bioteach] is to simply provide a focal point of freely accessible reference and educational resources that have a life science angle,» says Dr. Dave Ng (pictured at left), founder of the site and leader of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory (AMBL) at UBC.

The primary purpose of the imaging sequence was to verify that operation of the Junocam instrument did not cause any electromagnetic interference for the rest of the Juno science payload.

Informational text is defined as text with the primary purpose of expressing information about the arts, sciences, or social studies.

While the primary purpose of the blog is to audit the science, a secondary purpose is to audit the behavior of the scientists we've come to know all too well.

Heartland and its funders are not so delusional that they can imagine getting their curriculum adopted on any significant scale (among climate denialist private schools and home schoolers, sure, but such people are already not teaching the science), so its primary purpose is as a tool to make the teaching of climate science seem so controversial that it's best to just drop the subject entirely.

The primary purpose of a resume for Animal Science internship is to get you an interview.