Sentences with phrase «scientific enquiry»

To tell the developing story of biological thought as an illustration of the principles and methods of scientific enquiry in a much broader sense compounds the task.

These hands - on activities, in easy to use cards, develop guided discussions and varied and interesting experiments in Biology, Chemistry and Physics, and support the building blocks to developing essential scientific enquiry skills.

Others, like Atkins» fellow Oxford academic, Thomas Nagel, are more honest in admitting that this refusal to face the ultimate question thrown up by scientific enquiry is based on a desire to avoid its conclusion and a positive will to disbelieve:

I donot believe that the entire universe began with a big bang, however, this is the most plausible explanation for the origin of the universe as far as scientific enquiry goes.

Early 20th century Arctic warming in retrospect The major early 20th century climatic fluctuation (∼ 1920 — 1940) has been the subject of scientific enquiry from the time it was detected in the 1920s.

Was his testimony received in a spirit of genuine scientific enquiry or was it merely part of a stage managed political process?

The IPCC was formed to report on a broad range of scientific enquiries into the climate, and our effects on it, and to summarise the science for laypeople.

The movement played an important, some would say major, role in turning the world away from Aristotelian authoritarianism towards scientific enquiry.

Claims of supernatural causality can not advance scientific enquiry.

There is a reason the atheist is looking to discredit and mock in contrast with a strictly scientific enquiry.

Far from precluding it then, the condemnation of curiositas enables fundamental scientific enquiry.

So, while scientific enquiry and theology retain their own proper methods, there's only one reality, illuminated by both reason and revelation.

These networks are intended to «get the Welsh universities to think horizontally rather than vertically,» says Allen, and to strengthen their reputation as centers for scientific enquiry.

The environmental focus in this kind of scientific enquiry demonstrates the ultimate unity of the subject matter of science.

Questions should be scientific enquiries about everyday phenomena, and both questions and answers should be concise.

«Attacking this question also drives scientific enquiry and is of public interest.

Perimeter Institute's vibrant research community emphasizes ambitious, unconstrained scientific enquiry across nine research fields: cosmology, condensed matter, mathematical physics (including mathematics), particle physics, quantum fields and strings, quantum foundations, quantum gravity, quantum information, and strong gravity.

The resource challenges pupils to work like real scientists and develop critical thinking skills through scientific enquiry.

We are asking if 15 year olds got better in key science skills: explaining phenomena scientifically, designing scientific enquiry and interpreting data scientifically.

Mark Dion (b. 1961) approaches art by shadowing scientific enquiry, engaging in fieldwork, expeditions and experiments.

The Climate Commission has got nothing whatsoever to do with impartial, free - thinking scientific enquiry.

«What started as a straightforward scientific enquiry has become a mass delusion and then a gigantic confidence trick on the public, a scam, a rort.

We in the uk proudly established the Royal Society in the 18th century guaranteeing open scientific enquiry.

The key question remains at the interdecadal scale and that is where data reliability and politically motived adjustments make an honest scientific enquiry a lot more difficult.

He has created a body of work that playfully presents art as scientific enquiry or field work, questioning how knowledge is gathered, classified and displayed.

One of the great achievements of the Enlightenment — the liberation of historical and scientific enquiry from dogma — is quietly being reversed.

The mandate of the Academy encompasses all fields of scientific enquiry and it includes the full diversity of South Africa's distinguished scientists.

The skills of making and testing hypotheses and analysing data are important both in mathematics and in scientific enquiry.

The final evaluation is a rational interpretation of the metaphysics as applicable and adequate depending on its comprehensive capacity in elucidating experience — an approximation, no doubt, to the hypothetico - deductive method of scientific enquiry.

They view religion as engendering an anti-scientific outlook, one where the whole enterprise of scientific enquiry is undermined by dogmatism, even if the particular dogmas are contradicted by scientific fact, such as creationism.

The latter is the indisputable foundation of scientific enquiry.

By the same token, the objectivity of scientific law and scientific enquiry is also compromised by conflating matter and spirit at every level of creation.

For the religious believer, the source of these dimensions lies in the unifying will of the Creator, a fundamental insight that makes it intelligible not only that the universe is transparent to our scientific enquiry, but also that it is the arena of moral decision and the carrier of beauty.

There seem to be two fundamental issues needing to be articulated even more clearly: one is the issue of engagement with contemporary culture, which first needs an assessment of what is leading to greater truth and what is leading backwards to decadence; where are the points in our culture where there are signs of breaking through to a re-engagement with the basic human pursuit of the fullness of truth as opposed to the reduction of truth to scientific enquiry.

If this first step in human knowledge is fundamentally called into question then the scientist undermines the process of scientific enquiry and the theologian empties the significance of the Incarnation and the objectivity of all other concrete acts of God in history.

The motto of the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, encapsulates the spirit of scientific enquiry.

They also shed light onto scientific processes, as Dr Thorsen explains, «Popularising the process of scientific enquiry is an incredibly powerful tool to help engage people and explain what can often be complicated scientific findings.»

The burgeoning field of population genetics over the last decades, with its advancements in data acquisition and analysis, is by now a fast - growing active field of scientific enquiry.

Practicals Include: Rates of Reaction Chromatography Water Purification They contain questions about methodology, scientific enquiry and analysis of results.