Sentences with phrase «scientific tradition»

She expects her work to be more challenging than it would be at a research university in a country with a richer scientific tradition, but the environment suits her.

The great scientific traditions of Europe have had strong national identities; one naturally thinks of Pasteur as French, Newton as British, Pauli as German.

You sciency - types do nt abandon your worldview even though the ancient greek scientific philosophy that we base our western scientific tradition on, arose in a society founded on the belief in 12 capricious anthropomorphic gods, an animistic «universe», and an unshakeable belief in the idea of «fate».

Meanwhile a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) agrees that the country's great scientific tradition is in peril, but puts the blame on slow reforms.

Soon speculation was running rampant on the Web, which prompted «an unusual step and a break with scientific tradition,» as Phoenix principal investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson, put it on today's press teleconference.

The former East Bloc countries bring with them a strong scientific tradition and a population that, according to one recent survey, has more faith than Western Europeans in science's potential to make life better.

Chomsky also bucked against scientific tradition by becoming active in politics.

Most of these countries have an old scientific tradition, but their scientific infrastructures must be renewed.

Many skeptics come out of competing scientific traditions (math, stats, econ, compsci...) in which «can I replicate this exactly?»

4) Scientific tradition as it currently stands does not require publication of data.

A dictum that makes Moore quite certain that «in the best scientific tradition, skepticism is almost mandatory.»

The associations with Cambridge serve to situate the company as heir to a specific scientific tradition.

Abandoning local politics and western scientific tradition (a human wide perspective).

Although Germany has a rich scientific tradition, German universities have fallen behind in global research rankings

It also preserves Kuhn's most distinctive contributions concerning paradigms: the importance of exemplars in the transmission of a scientific tradition, and the strategic value of commitment to a research programme.

Moreover, the premises of freedom within the scientific tradition imply wider freedoms; a culture which believes in the universality of truth and shares a common dedication to it will encourage freedom of discussion, rather than the settlement of arguments by force.

But there is a process of automatic co-ordination which, as Polanyi has pointed out, 4 does not endanger freedom because it is the scientific tradition which governs individual efforts.

A religious tradition, like a scientific tradition, is transmitted more by the memory of its exemplars than by a set of explicit principles.

For reasons having to do with the Western scientific tradition — that the best and truest theories and natural laws are the simple ones — and, probably, the human brain's yearning for simplicity, our intuitions about the world are turning out to be wrong the closer we examine it.

Her European heritage and education in both the sciences and in the humanities created a unique style which blends Eastern and Western theological, literary and scientific traditions.

In an essay she wrote last year for younger artists, she added that over the years, she has also tried out «Ayurvedic principles, philosophy, Feldenkrais technique, anthropology, astrology, the physiology of perception, contemplating life as a cave man, health - food regimens, psychedelic experiences, reading self - help books, eBay, falling in love, practicing magical rites» and «the scientific tradition,» among other freeing approaches from a deep therapeutic grab bag.

I have to put the word in parenthesis when applied to people who have betrayed the scientific tradition.

Post-modernism substitutes relativism and subjectivism for the scientific tradition of seeking (eventually) objective truth, and this is a grave menace.

It is therefore correct, indeed verging on compulsory in the scientific tradition, to be skeptical of those who express certainty that «the science is settled» and «the debate is over».

I was also raised in a scientific tradition that regarded politics as inferior: If you weren't bright enough to do science, you could go into politics.