Sentences with phrase «think in this scientific age»

You would think in this scientific age we would have governments that had gotten beyond him, and used a rationalist's policy: seek the best scientific information and take actions that, after careful analysis, would have the best chance of success.

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In this scientific age some highbrow circles are so obsessed by the restricted notion of truth as the mere mating of intelligence with facts that they think of intelligence as in itself a sufficient implement for the discovery of truth, whereas the fact is that the areas where we can get at truth by intelligence alone are feIn this scientific age some highbrow circles are so obsessed by the restricted notion of truth as the mere mating of intelligence with facts that they think of intelligence as in itself a sufficient implement for the discovery of truth, whereas the fact is that the areas where we can get at truth by intelligence alone are fein itself a sufficient implement for the discovery of truth, whereas the fact is that the areas where we can get at truth by intelligence alone are few.

The realization of the crucial significance of relations between persons, and of the fundamentally social nature of reality is the necessary, saving corrective of the dominance of our age by the scientific way of thinking, the results of which, as we know, may involve us in universal destruction, and by the technical mastery of things, which threatens man with the no less serious fate of dehumanization.

(It may of course be argued that there are people alive to - day whose confidence in the traditional scientific view of the world has been shaken, and others who are primitive enough to qualify for an age of mythical thought.

Both programs are based on scientific research into how students of various ages learn best and have allowed students to not only grow in their educational knowledge, but strengthen their problem - solving and critical thinking skills.

Floods have punctuated the Earth's history, but the «Zanclean megaflood» — so named for the geologic age during which it occurred (from 5.3 million to 3.6 million years ago)-- is thought to be the largest ever, the new research, published in January in Scientific Reports reveals.

In their study, published today in the Springer scientific journal «The Science of Nature,» the team of scientists therefore postulates that the evolution of penguins started much earlier than previously thought, probably already during the age of dinosaurIn their study, published today in the Springer scientific journal «The Science of Nature,» the team of scientists therefore postulates that the evolution of penguins started much earlier than previously thought, probably already during the age of dinosaurin the Springer scientific journal «The Science of Nature,» the team of scientists therefore postulates that the evolution of penguins started much earlier than previously thought, probably already during the age of dinosaurs.

In an age when blood vessels were still thought to carry air, they needed to open living bodies to their scientific scrutiny.

So, yes, in my experience, if you get someone of around college age, and you have time to work with them, you have a chance to get them engaged with science and scientific (rational) thinking, even if they haven't shown much promise previously.

So your scientific intuition rebels at the thought of runaway positive feedback (like that which causes the rapid transition from ice age to interglacial which is so well established), but it doesn't rebel at the thought that somehow, every scientist since 1922 has failed to notice an allegedly major flaw in our understanding of the greenhouse effect?

We seem to still live in a reasoned age — we're surrounded by scientific thinking; governments now pursue evidence - based policy: great medical and technological breakthroughs are still being made.