Sentences with phrase «things a natural scientist»

And in her first show at Cecilia Brunson Projects the Venezuelan - born artist develops this through a kindred spirit, Beatrix Potter, among other things a natural scientist and a pioneer in fungal spore reproduction.

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As Albert the Great, medieval philosopher, scientist, and teacher of Thomas Aquinas, remarked: «In the natural sciences we do not investigate how God the Creator operates according to His will and uses miracles to show His power, but rather what may happen in natural things on the ground of the causes inherent in nature» (In I De caelo et mundo, tr.

Philosophy has to take notice of what is established by natural scientists but, equally, philosophy enables usto judge some of the things said by scientists, for example, about the nature of matter.

«It is the one and the same God who establishes and guarantees the intelligibility and reasonableness of the natural order of things upon which scientists confidently depend, and who reveals himself as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.»

Not only is this disassociation apparent but it seems to leave theology particularly exposed; for while the metaphysician may be criticised for paying insufficient attention to empirical enquiry, and the natural scientist too little to abstract argument about ultimate principles, at least both appear to be directed towards describing the structure of things: metaphysical and natural, respectively.

After all they were interested in the ultimate constituents of things and in the manner of their combination, and in the ancient world they were actually referred to as «physiologoi» which can be translated as «natural scientists».

«2 Eventually, he let go of the dogma that had dominated Western thought: the belief that events are guided by a sure, rational hand and that scientists and philosophers are capable of reading the print of that hand as it appears in natural and cultural history He acknowledged that all things «perpetually perish» — where «perish» refers not to the end of all time but to the end of every moment.

Scientists have created a molecule that mimics the look and behavior of a natural enzyme, a workhorse protein that speeds up chemical reactions in living things.

«Well - being is a universally applicable concept, yet because it can mean so many different things to different people, pinning down an exact definition is difficult,» said lead author Eleanor Sterling, who is the Jaffe Chief Conservation Scientist in the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.

An international community of conservationists, scientists and sociologists needs to join the concerned citizens and researchers of Nicaragua in demanding two things: first, independent assessments of the repercussions of this mega-project; and second, that the Nicaraguan government halt the project should the assessments confirm fears that this canal will yield more losses than gains for the region's natural resources, indigenous communities and biodiversity.

Leonard Hayflick, the scientist who discovered that cells have a programmed moment of death, says that there is a natural age limit for organisms, that things wear out and die.

Growing up in the shadow of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and The Bethesda Naval Medical Center, with a father, a clinician scientist in paediatric neurology at NIH, combined with a growing curiosity about all things biological and medical, I developed a natural inclination to become a scientist.

For example, 87 percent of scientists say that humans and other living things evolved over time and that evolution is a result of natural processes such as natural selection; only 32 percent of the public accepts this as true.

It is TI's belief that fun, interactive learning tools and resources nurture natural curiosity in how and why things work, inspiring future engineers, and even tomorrow's scientists, mathematicians, doctors and teachers.

Our exhibits are designed to entertain the history buff, natural scientist, artist, and lover of all things Cannon Beach.

Though scientists warn that global warming will likely continue for centuries because of the long natural processes involved, there are a few things we can do to decrease the effects.

In 1990, two years after NASA scientist James E. Hansen issued his now famous warning about climate change during a congressional hearing, Lindzen started taking a publicly contrarian stance when he challenged then - senator Gore by suggesting in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that the case for human - induced global warming was overstated and that natural climate variability could explain things just as easily.

«We don't fully understand how to input things like changes in the oceans, and because we don't fully understand it you could say that natural variability is now working to suppress the warming,» Jones admitted to the paper, apparently acknowledging what skeptical climate scientists have been attempting to convey for years.

There is definitely more natural variation in all things than our mainstream scientists give credit for (and this because the math we actually use in calculations «factors out» the variation giving us a Math World rather than a Real World Perspective) Group Think has lead to many disasters in the past and will lead to more in the future if we seek to ridicule those who show us a different perspective on the arguments.

That's not the worst thing in the world and is a natural tendency of everyone, but we shouldn't pretend its just low key scientists giving us «just the facts.»

This is normal empirical research, yet natural scientists seems very afraid of such things.

Roy Spencer, principal research scientist at the University of Alabama - Huntsville, says, «The main thing they're trying to show is that the recent warming and moistening in the last 30 years is outside the range of natural variability, and that man is causing the warming.

We might well expect to see the same thing in other subjects: for example, life scientists no longer need to affirm evolution through natural selection, it has become settled science; geologists take plate tectonics for granted today, although they would not have in the 1960s when there was a scientific revolution underway.