Sentences with phrase «scientific search for understanding»

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The authors should be applauded for engaging honestly and thoughtfully with the scientific evidence in their search for an understanding of human nature which is consistent with the experimental evidence.

This interpretation can be criticized on scientific grounds because it tends to discourage the search for further understanding.

Metaphysics has traditionally been understood as the search for a coherent set of general categories for the interpretation of the whole range of human experience — scientific, religious, aesthetic, moral, etc..

Since the Program's creation, several dialogue meetings have been held to explore the spectrum of religious and scientific thinking on issues related to advances in our knowledge of genetics and to promote thoughtful dialogue and a search for common understanding of their ethical, theological, and social implications.

A professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Maryland, he has been engaged for more than a decade in a wide - ranging intellectual pursuit that has taken him from the play of young chimpanzees to the history of American sitcoms — all in search of a scientific understanding of that most unscientific of human customs: laughter.

Overall, the committee found that «to optimize the science return for the decade 2012 - 2021 within the anticipated resources, [the United States should] focus on three science objectives» — searching for the first stars, galaxies and black holes; seeking nearby, habitable planets; and understanding scientific principles — «while also considering the discovery potential of a much broader research program.»

Af Klint's work can be understood in the wider context of the Modernist search for new forms in artistic, spiritual, political and scientific systems at the beginning of the 20th century.

«Truthing» (the result of following the scientific method) is always searching for a better understanding and always knowing that you will never have the whole truth!

SEARCH recognizes that future scientific understanding of the Arctic will be shaped by the research questions that we ask now, and the utility of the answers for policymaking will be enhanced by early and iterative conversations between researchers and policy staff.