Sentences with phrase «total of our scientific knowledge»

You can not isolate this one item from all the massively integrated whole that is the sum total of our scientific knowledge — you can't pick and choose!

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First, the «burden of knowledge» — the total amount of available scientific information — grows relentlessly so that any given individual, no matter how stellar, can master only a dwindling share of all that is known.

Numerous artists re-contextualize pictures of solar phenomena from the 19th century to today, tracing the intersecting histories of photography and scientific knowledge, including Simon Starling's video installation Black Drop (2012) and Sarah Charlesworth's multi-photo work Arc of the Total Eclipse, February 26, 1979 (1979).

Since people's beliefs about evolution are influenced by their perceptions of scientific consensus, the total role of science knowledge in shaping a person's opinion likely operates indirectly through beliefs about scientific consensus as well as directly through beliefs about whether humans have evolved over time.

IPCC also assumes (with a «low level of scientific knowledge») that natural (solar) forcing was only 7 % of the total forcing over this long period, while several solar studies have estimated this to have been around 50 %.

Determined to protect the ozone layer by taking precautionary measures to control equitably total global emissions of substances that deplete it, with the ultimate objective of their elimination on the basis of developments in scientific knowledge, taking into account technical and economic considerations and bearing in mind the developmental needs of developing countries,