Sentences with phrase «than a century nature»

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According to the institute's mission statement, no less than «harnessing the quantum laws of nature to develop powerful new technologies that will transform information technology and drive the 21st century economy.»

Isaacson noted Da Vinci's «willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method developed more than century later... His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we've outgrown our wonder years».

Even if all parties were to agree that American republicanism is not classically liberal, or that classical liberalism really is ontologically indifferent, or that the laws of nature and of nature's God are the foundation of constitutional order and that these are the same thing as natural law — even if, in other words, all parties were to agree to some version of a pristine American founding harmonious in principle with the truth of God and the human being — returning to the first principles of the eighteenth century isn't much more realistic than a return to the first principles of the thirteenth.

Claiming to be not simply an accidental nineteenth - century invention but a timeless truth about human sexual nature, this framework puts on airs, deceiving those who adopt its distinctions into believing that they are worth far more than they really are.

It is assumed that the soul by its nature is eternal, which was also the view of the third century Christian thinker Origen (c. 185 - c. 254) although in Advaita philosophy from the standpoint of realization the individual soul is not other than the Universal Soul.

The new naturalism and science of the 17th century initially had the effect of restoring the vision of nature as good, orderly and benign — the arena of the manifestation of God's divine reason, rather than of the devil's malice.

The puritan conservationists have too readily accepted a 19th century theology that sets history against nature — a theology which is basically western European rather than biblical.

Back in the early seventeenth century Francis Bacon, the first modern philosopher of science, recognised that the developmental nature of modern scientific methodology provided a truer vision of how human knowing arrives at formality than the scholastic theory of abstraction.

That was in the early»70s, when with long hair, bobbles, bangles and beads and a gleam of communitarian utopianism in my eyes, I finally found my way into the fourth century treatise by Nemesius, peri phuseos anthropon («On the Nature of the Human»), where it at length dawned on me that ancient wisdom could be the basis for a deeper critique of modern narcissistic individualism than I had yet seen.

Human nature comprises evil as well as good, and that has never been shown to be more obvious than in this century, when 6 million Jews were killed by the most important, modern nation in the world, the most democratic, and the most intellectually and educationally advanced.

When one considers the magnitude and radical nature of the questions posed for the theologian by the new world, it is not surprising to find that theologians are beginning to speak about a new reformation more radical than that of the sixteenth century.

Claiming to be not simply an accidental nineteenth - century invention but a timeless truth about human sexual nature, this framework puts on airs, deceiving those who adopt its labels into believing that such distinctions are worth far more than they really are.

bility has many roots — the love of neighbor inculcated by centuries of teaching and example, the faith in a God whose nature it is to order and redeem no less than to create.

A second blow to deism came in the middle of the nineteenth century with Darwin's alternative explanation of the design of nature with its emphasis on chance and struggle rather than on beneficent design.

When the astronomical revolution of the sixteenth century — in which the Italian philosophers of the Renaissance played a far more important role than historians of science admit — removed the universal cosmic clock, there were two alternative ways open to physics and philosophy of nature: either to retain the relational theory of time and to hold with Bruno (Bruno 1879, p. 144) that «there are as many times as there are the stars» (tot tempora quot astra), since there is no body possessing a privileged rotation motion, and the only body which allegedly had it — the sphere of the fixed stars — has been swept away; or to save the unity and homogeneity of time by separating it from any particular motion — and this is what Newton did, anticipated in this respect by Isaac Barrow and, in particular, Gassendi.

In order to bring about a post-critical reconciliation of mind and nature we need a wider and deeper sense of the cosmos than our religious ancestors had or than modern science has given us since the seventeenth century.

In spite of the fact that Socrates studied with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 E).

Fossil mussel shells excavated more than a century ago at an H. erectus site on the Indonesian island of Java include a shell with engravings of an M shape, two parallel lines and a reversed N shape, the scientists report December 3 in Nature.

After the environment ministry tripled the logging quota in March 2016, eight nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) accused it of breaking EU nature protection laws by not assessing the potential ecological impact of the additional logging and not sparing trees more than a century old.

And their flexible, intelligent arms are the envy of roboticists and artificial intelligence engineers worldwide.But these animals, which have evolved over hundreds of millions of years, can teach us even more about security in the 21st century than camo and communications, Rafe Sagarin argues in his new book Learning from the Octopus: How secrets from nature can help us fight terrorist attacks, natural disasters and disease (Basic Books, April 2012).

It was Gardner's first publication of a skeptical nature (he was the math games columnist for Scientific American for more than a quarter of a century).

A walk through most Midwestern state parks and nature preserves looks much different today than it did a century ago.

Some of these meticulous images not only enthralled a nature - curious public more than 100 years ago but also instigated a taxonomic revolution by the great eighteenth - century botanist Carl Linnaeus.

Ice - free areas of Antarctica — home to more than 99 per cent of the continent's terrestrial plants and animals — could expand by more than 17,000 km2 by the end of this century, a study published today in Nature reveals.

Schlesinger and Ramankutty reach broadly similar conclusions, but they also point out that even though greenhouse gases now dominate global warming, if part of the warming during this century is indeed due to solar changes, the additional greenhouse effect may be weaker than was previously thought (Nature, vol 360, p 330).

So for more than a century, physiologists had argued about the nature of the water transport mechanism.

Despite more than half a century of intensive research, however, insulin - degrading enzyme has remained «an especially elusive pharmacological target,» biochemist Malcolm Leissring of the Scripps Research Institute and neurobiologist Dennis Selkoe of Harvard Medical School wrote in a commentary that accompanies the Nature article.

Not at all, because the ending, in admirable 18th century style, tidies all loose ends, restores order to the kingdom, and allows everyone to live happily ever after, although it is in the nature of things that some will live happier than others.

For more than a century, American educators and education policymakers have chosen sides in a great debate about the nature and function of American high schools.

In the pages of Stolen Water: Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes and Florida, Carter describes what visitors do not see: a monumental battle between nature and civilization that began more than a century ago.

Our century - old ranch is outfitted with current amenities including Wi - Fi, fresh spring water flowing from all taps, an expansive restaurant serving authentic Costa Rican cuisine, and our on - site Adventure Center offering more than 20 adventure tours and nature tours right on our ranch and in the national park.

Studying Nature: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection presents more than twenty works drawn from the collection of Eugene V. and Clare Thaw, which chronicles the history of the genre in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The show will feature more than 60 non-figurative portraits that explore the evolving understanding of personal identity over the last century and that reflect a revolution in the very nature of portraiture itself.

From 1924, it's a still life — nature morte, or dead nature, as the French would say — and it's a composition that has more to do with Dutch painting from the 17th century than with Paris or with anything that Soutine saw as a young man in Belarus.

Five 19th - century warehouses live on as more than 9,000 square feet of exhibition space where curated exhibitions and site - specific installations reflect the global nature of contemporary culture.

Rather, these are studio creations, more indebted to American Modernist landscape paintings than Mother Nature... Referencing the pictorial language of late - 19th and early - 20th century landscape painting might seem a convoluted way to create imagery that purports to be urgently personal.

Artists have been portraying one of nature's most entrancing and dangerous spectacles ever since the idea spread about in the 18th century that the «sublime» can be more powerful than mere beauty.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston opened a yearlong survey exhibition in January 2015 dedicated to the interpretation of more than a century of ceramic production in the United States, called Nature, Sculpture, Abstraction, and Clay 100 Years of American Ceramics.

By the very nature of the simulation, there were no 20th century trends, other than spurious «trends» from persistence.»

His position: • No evidence of increasing lake clarity as a result of secchi measurements since 1946 • The interplay of stratification and plankton productivity are not «straightforward» • Challenges O'Reilly's assumption on the correlation of wind and productivity - the highest production is on the end of the lake with the lowest winds • A strong caution using diatoms as the productivity proxy (it is one of two different lake modes) • No ability to link climate change to productivity changes • More productivity from river than allowed for in Nature Geopscience article • Externally derived nutrients control productivity for a quarter of the year • Strong indications of overfishing • No evidence of a climate and fishery production link • The current productivity of the lake is within the expected range • Doesn't challenge recent temp increase but cites temperature records do not show a temperature rise in the last century • Phytoplankton chlorophylla seems to have not materially changed from the 1970s to 1990s • Disputes O'Reilly's and Verbug's claims of increased warming and decreased productivity • Rejects Verburgs contention that changes in phytoplankton biomass (biovolume), in dissolved silica and in transparency support the idea of declining productivity.

But running a line through the middle of the century and drawing long term conclusions on that basis does change the nature of the issue and potentially leads to high level findings that are linked to the selection of the line, rather than the science itself.

While at first glance, 21st - century adolescents appear impossibly cool — cooler than we could have ever been ourselves — teens today are running hot with cultural forces that have redefined the nature of their consciousness and experience of selfhood.

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