Sentences with phrase «value of science in»

«Everyone — Europeans and the rest of the world alike — will rightly see this decision as the European Commission downgrading both the practical and the symbolic value of science in Europe,» said Imran Khan, chief executive of the British Science Association.

«Engagement humanizes science and reinforces the value of science in our public policy,» said Myhre, who recently testified before the Washington State House Environmental Committee on the importance of science informed targets for greenhouse gases.

Coinciding with Horn's time at AAAS, and a highlight of his visit, was the March for Science on April 22 that drew thousands of science enthusiasts to Washington, D.C. and to hundreds of other cities and towns across the globe to show their support for the value of science in the public sphere.

Not exact matches

Science and technology will be the tools that carry us forward, inevitably, but it is this driving idea — of customer - centered value — that will spur the most meaningful changes in the realms of healthcare systems and medical technology.

A: In reality, valuing a business is much more of an art than a science.

But some outsiders are concerned that may not be as relevant in an era when millennials are enthralled more by value than by top - of - the - line science, by sustainability as much as performance.

Life - sciences companies closed deals worth $ 166.3 billion in the first quarter of this year, surpassing the value of all 2014 deals combined, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

MaRS clients are making breakthroughs in areas such as healthcare and clean technology that will help improve people's everyday lives and generate high - paying, high - value jobs,» says Reza Moridi, Minister of Research, Innovation and Science for the Province of Ontario.

She has been a vital person in bridging the gap between science and politics and her vast network and the strong respect that surrounds her person will be of great value to the Global Opportunity Network,» says Erik Rasmussen, founder and CEO of Monday Morning Global Institute and member of the Steering Committee for the network.

The Creative Destruction Lab is a seed stage program for massively scalable science - based ventures that launched from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management in 2012 with a goal of $ 50 million in equity value creation in five years.

The future of the natural resources industry is increasingly looking like science fiction: very soon resources firms big and small will be able to quickly locate value deep in the earth thanks to lightning - fast, algorithm - based analysis of electromagnetic data.

It's environmentally and community friendly: A recent story in the LA Times focused on the growing body of social science indicating that «women consistently (highly) rank values strongly linked to environmental concern — things such as altruism, personal responsibility and empathy.»

The successful commercialization of cutting - edge science achieved through the program has led to creation of over $ 2 billion in equity value.

Through establishing deep, operational partnerships with all of our portfolio companies, we focus on building scalable business foundations rooted in operational expertise, data science, analytics, full funnel digital marketing and the creation of compelling value propositions.

For the past two decades or so, the majority of those working in the humanities and the interpretive social sciences have witnessed the value of focused and sustained learning and the integrity of fields be progressively diluted and frittered away by an increasingly separate class of professional administrators.

I do find it puzzling, however, to watch theologians, both conservative and liberal, come to the defense of the human, the rational, objectivity, the «text,» «moral values,» science, and all the other conceits the modern university cherishes in the name of «humanism.»

While I appreciate your willingness to admit the meaninglessness of your faith, science has in fact shown us it's value first hand.

The conclusion just reached suggests that supposedly value - free political science has had value commitments in spite of itself, at least to the extent that it affirms happiness to be a private matter.5 In addition, I am persuaded that political science explicitly based upon a preferential view of self - interest always implicitly invokes an objective criterion of happinesin spite of itself, at least to the extent that it affirms happiness to be a private matter.5 In addition, I am persuaded that political science explicitly based upon a preferential view of self - interest always implicitly invokes an objective criterion of happinesIn addition, I am persuaded that political science explicitly based upon a preferential view of self - interest always implicitly invokes an objective criterion of happiness.

In other words, mainstream political science has insisted upon the logical independence of fact and value, such that only propositions about facts can be properly called true or false, and the study of political facts is «value - neutral» or «value - free.»

The International Information fundamentally represents the dominance and penetration of the technocratic culture into the life of the peoples in the third World, either in the form of science and technology transfer, or in the form of economic development and coqercial advertisement, or in terms of the inculcation of military values such as national security doctrine and peace propagenda.

In his recent analysis of contemporary social and political theory, David J. Bernstein argues that «when we concentrate on... mainstream social science, we detect... the constant suggestion that in the final analysis «values» are only individual emotional responses» (RSPT 53In his recent analysis of contemporary social and political theory, David J. Bernstein argues that «when we concentrate on... mainstream social science, we detect... the constant suggestion that in the final analysis «values» are only individual emotional responses» (RSPT 53in the final analysis «values» are only individual emotional responses» (RSPT 53).

But trends in rationalism and scientism over the last two centuries turned it into a «value - free» social science» to some, just a form of applied mathematics.

China needs to find or develop a worldview that allows it to recover much of its traditional culture and values in a way that also opens it to the knowledge that has been gained by Western science.

Moltmann's thoughts on the dangers of using the power of scientific knowledge without pondering beauty - and in particular on the dangers of the «economisation» of science in this century, in which scientific thought may only be valued generally in terms of its economic power - would be shared by many researchers in the UK.

Imagination has deep value for humanity but tends to take a back seat in the minds of many even while the same people ritualistically follow sporting events or spend money to sit in the pews of the movie theatre and watch sermons delivered by fantasy (past) or superhero (present) or science fiction (future) movies.

According to this theory, economics is a «value - free» science, and the economic world can be defined in terms of the competition for scarce resources between self - interested individuals with unlimited wants.

Science is not the source, nor the end, just a medium to learn truth absolute of a matter, having no value of its own, a source in mind of a hindu ignorant Atheist, self centered like an animal, Atheist.

In Science and the Modern World, Whitehead argues strongly against the value of pure abstraction because it leads to thinking that is detached from concrete reality and it leads to narrow specialization.

Kenneth Burke, «Fact, Inference, and Proof in the Analysis of Literary Symbolism», in Symbols and Values: An Initial Study Tenth Symposium of the Conference on Science, Philosophy, and Religion; New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954), p. 283.

Typo in a previous post of mine: «We already see this true in Europe in which their science and math education along with a society valuing science has created unprecedented numbers of non-believers *»

According to Artigas, it is the emergence of rational beings possessing the sort of creativity attested to by the natural sciences that gives this process of self «organization value, and hence allows it to be described in theological terms.

The culture in the science community does that by valuing the debunking of poor science as much as creation of new science.

If Judeo - Christian values mean complete rejection of science and logic, as Santorum believes in, then only god can save the GOP.

Teaching in the area of values should draw on the best in the Hebrew - Christian tradition — tested, undergirded, illuminated, and implemented by the insights of the psychological sciences.

In Science and the Modern World God in this role is described as providing an antecedent, ordering limitation upon values prior to any given concrescence and is referred to as the principle of limitatioIn Science and the Modern World God in this role is described as providing an antecedent, ordering limitation upon values prior to any given concrescence and is referred to as the principle of limitatioin this role is described as providing an antecedent, ordering limitation upon values prior to any given concrescence and is referred to as the principle of limitation.

What does the fundamental progress of science consist in, except the discovery of the organic, structural value of what is most general and everyday in our experience?

Clearly the sciences are admirably suited for the growth of loyalty to truth as an intrinsic value and to the human communities that truth in its many formulations brings into being.

But he fails even to allude to the radical challenges to this which emerged in the 20th century from some Pragmatists and from Ludwig Wittgenstein, with their «collapse of the fact - value system», a view now prominent in contemporary philosophy of science.

After a century in which our science and politics have rejected any belief in the unique value of each person, surely such a sweeping claim demands substantial supporting argument.

The ultimate motive power, alike in science, in morality, and in religion, is the sense of value, the sense of importance.

Modern expressions of reason were deformed into either an extrinsicism (positivism) or an immanentism (idealism) in which nature and history, science and morality, fact and value, bureaucracy and community, knowing and feeling, were (1) either sundered from one another in various forms of dualism, e.g., mechanism - vitalism, scientism - emotivisrn, etc., (2) or were conflated into various forms of monism, e.g., materialism, idealism, etc. (LL 66 - 79, 146 - 53, 213 - 19, 245 - 64, 285 - 94, SV 1 - 60).

But he might then prefer to say: science for the sake of God and man, for it is only in relation to God and man that these values are significant.

Our Ivan Kenneally unloads on Obamacare in The Weekly Standard: If one were to take seriously the central premise of Obama's ersatz science of politics — the distinction between political facts and moral values — the inescapable conclusion is that our president turns out to be a....

I hope it has served as a fruitful illustration of process theology's quest, in its encounter with the sciences, for the kinds of values and vision we need if we are to wrestle with the problems that threaten us with extinction.

For Man, by the act of «noospherically» concentrating himself upon himself, not only becomes reflectively aware of the ontological current on which he is borne, but also gains control of certain of the springs of energy which dictate this advance: above all, collective springs, in so far as he consciously realizes the value, biological efficiency and creative nature of social organization; but also individual springs m as much as, through the collective work of science, he feels himself to be on the verge of acquiring the power of physicochemical control of the operations of heredity and morphogenesis in the depths of his own being.

Again, value - judgments are less directly involved in the details of work in the natural sciences than in many other fields; in the social sciences, for example, a scholar's work is more strongly affected by his views of the nature of man, his values and goals, and his perspective on society.

They are meant to designate the form or type to which Paul's theological thinking belongs, and, as regards the question of truth or value, they are as neutral as the word «formula» is in science or «syllogism» in logic.

Along with common human experience, the behavioral sciences provide much data that can only be explained in terms of the individual's fundamental desire to be valued.

In contrast to the aesthetic order implicit in Kukai's view of nature and contemporary science and process thought, the «logical order» of mainline Christianity characterized by Ames assumes: (1) preassigned patterns of relatedness, a blueprint» wherein unity is prior to plurality, and plurality is a «fall» from unity; (2) values concrete particularity only to the degree it mirrors this preassigned pattern of relatedness; (3) reduces particulars to only those aspects needed to illustrate the given pattern, which necessarily entails moving away from concrete particulars toward the universal; (4) interprets nature as a closed system of predetermined specifications, and therefore reducible to quantitative description; (5) characterizes being as necessity, creativity as conformity, and novelty as defect; and (6) views «rightness» as the degree of conformity to preassigned patterns (NAT 116In contrast to the aesthetic order implicit in Kukai's view of nature and contemporary science and process thought, the «logical order» of mainline Christianity characterized by Ames assumes: (1) preassigned patterns of relatedness, a blueprint» wherein unity is prior to plurality, and plurality is a «fall» from unity; (2) values concrete particularity only to the degree it mirrors this preassigned pattern of relatedness; (3) reduces particulars to only those aspects needed to illustrate the given pattern, which necessarily entails moving away from concrete particulars toward the universal; (4) interprets nature as a closed system of predetermined specifications, and therefore reducible to quantitative description; (5) characterizes being as necessity, creativity as conformity, and novelty as defect; and (6) views «rightness» as the degree of conformity to preassigned patterns (NAT 116in Kukai's view of nature and contemporary science and process thought, the «logical order» of mainline Christianity characterized by Ames assumes: (1) preassigned patterns of relatedness, a blueprint» wherein unity is prior to plurality, and plurality is a «fall» from unity; (2) values concrete particularity only to the degree it mirrors this preassigned pattern of relatedness; (3) reduces particulars to only those aspects needed to illustrate the given pattern, which necessarily entails moving away from concrete particulars toward the universal; (4) interprets nature as a closed system of predetermined specifications, and therefore reducible to quantitative description; (5) characterizes being as necessity, creativity as conformity, and novelty as defect; and (6) views «rightness» as the degree of conformity to preassigned patterns (NAT 116).

While Platt puts his faith in the resourcefulness of the sciences to solve human problems, he highlights the importance of the value question at least implicitly by his insistence on the necessity of reordering the priorities by which we as a society invest our talents.