| 单词 | scientific |
| 例句 | The ancients knew a few of these equation-laws, like the law of the lever, but with the beginning of the scientific revolution these equation-laws sprang up everywhere. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Throughout his writing career, he stayed abreast of new ideas and discoveries by corresponding with researchers and reading scientific papers. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “I was sent to your planet to gather scientific data on what you Earthlings call emotions.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was a tool he could use, a process that could reduce the mysterious ways of politics to scientific testing and evaluation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It’s wonderful to think what would happen if you put your imagination toward scientific ends. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z With no credible scientific evidence that a crime had occurred, the State introduced inflammatory evidence that Marsha was poor, a prior drug user, and obviously a bad mother for not seeking prenatal care. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Our unifying topics, number and probability, do, however, pro vide the basis for statistics, which, together with logic, constitutes the foundation of the scientific method, which will eventually sort matters out if anything can. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Berg was “intrigued with the scientific and human interest elements in such a story,” he wrote, and he wanted to learn more about it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It is remarkable that, so long after the ‘linguistic turn’, the basic history of some key words/concepts which make the scientific enterprise possible remains to be written. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And I’m sure there’s some explanation, something scientific, but it felt like more than that. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z For very big or very small numbers, so-called scientific notation is often clearer and easier to work with than standard notation and I’ll therefore sometimes use it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But one of the most important lessons learned in the centuries since Copernicus is that a scientific model doesn’t have to explain everything to be a good model. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He made Lawrence and Compton aware that henceforth their portfolio was to be exclusively scientific and technical. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Strong would spend the war years overseeing one of the largest scientific construction sites in the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In 2011, the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, first established in the Reagan administration, highlighted current scientific research and issued a call for greater emphasis on arts education. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Well, good luck with your scientific method,” Danny told me, getting to his feet. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “Presumably your friends feel less strongly about scientific experiments than mine. Yes.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z There were powerful elements of scientific adventure and the zest for discovery of new lands, new plants and animals, new people; the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Each cage was labeled in some indecipherable scientific jargon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a table in the middle of the room where he sat to look at his specimens through a magnifying glass or simple microscope, and to read his scientific papers. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Killian’s committee contained a diversity of scientific opinion that had been missing from Eisenhower’s scientific councils under Strauss. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In sad contrast to the story of Pericles calmly explaining away an eclipse to a frightened sailor, the teaching of scientific astronomy was banned outright in Athens around 432. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1951, Maurice Wilkins gave a scientific talk at the Zoological Station in Naples—at the laboratory where Boveri and Morgan had once worked on urchins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The Ptolemys did not merely collect established knowledge; they encouraged and financed scientific research and so generated new knowledge. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ptolemy I founded the Museum, which became a center for scientific study. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Groves, who thought the latter shortcoming deprived Oppie of the scientific prestige the project leader should possess, plainly was unaware of the scientists towering reputation in the physics community. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If you had to select the least convivial scientific field trip of all time, you could certainly do worse than the French Royal Academy of Sciences’ Peruvian expedition of 1735. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Usually there’s a scientific explanation if you only look for it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He also sent it to some of his scientific friends, but he was in many ways most interested in Emma’s reaction. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But these personal upheavals were minor compared with the hornets’ nest soon to be stirred by Galileo’s new scientific discoveries. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z His discovery was a triumph of scientific deduction, for the neutron, which gives deuterium its additional weight, was not discovered until many months after he identified the isotope itself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The country’s success in the Great War inspired a new appreciation across the land for the value of scientific research as a national endeavor and as a foundation for industrial growth. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His official "cover" was as a scientific adviser, assigned to organize trips abroad for Soviet technical experts. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The give-and-take of scientific discussion was fostered by another Lawrence innovation: the Journal Club, a weekly colloquium to which all the Rad Lab staff and visitors from other departments were invited. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And the distinguished British scientific administrator Walter Fletcher warned an American audience that commercial prospects were certain to exercise “a vicious influence” over academic standards. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His confidence in Lawrence’s administrative and scientific abilities, which dated from their very first meeting, had only been strengthened by the success of the electromagnetic separation process. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He had barricaded the most fragile of his convictions—that purely hereditary influences could explain such patterns of accomplishment—from any scientific challenge. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Most of its scientific instruments are on a scan platform, which tracks Jupiter or one of its moons as the spacecraft hurtles past. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was more of a pilgrimage than a scientific visit. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But Malpighi’s observations had been reported piece by piece to the scientific community more or less as they had been made. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Sooner or later Linus, who had just turned fifty, was bound to try for the most important of all scientific prizes. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Why did Galileo take it seriously as a scientific instrument? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was history's first cooperative international scientific venture, and almost everywhere it ran into problems. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The articles included scientific language and specific details about the telescope’s unprecedented power. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The central task of such an epistemology is not to explain why we have been successful in our pursuit of scientific knowledge; there is no good answer to that question. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Consequently two different scientific communities will always produce two radically different bodies of scientific fact and theory, and science is not a cross-cultural form of knowledge but a local consensus, specific to a particular community. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In so far as scientific research still continues, this is its subject matter. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He had been a major figure in one of the great scientific dramas of the 1920s, the quest to confirm Einstein’s theory of relativity by astronomical observation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It took seventy years for that answer to establish itself, but once the telescope had been invented and turned into a scientific instrument it was the only answer with any chance of survival. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Bill by bill, and letter by letter, his scientific imagination was slowly choked by administrative work. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Chemistry, too, became more scientific and less mystical as the eighteenth century wore on. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z His museum had discovered evidence that the Americas had been inhabited during the Pleistocene, a major scientific coup. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Meanwhile back at Maer, referring to all the scientific work she thought her future husband was doing, Emma had written to Aunt Jessie, “I am so glad he is a busy man.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Equal temperament has a clear scientific/mathematical basis, is very straightforward, does not require retuning for key changes, and is unquestioningly accepted by most people. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Because they were open-minded and liberal, Charles knew he could broach with them some of the radical scientific thoughts he was beginning to have. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The May 31 meeting broke up with the Interim Committee and its scientific panel at cross-purposes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He tried to neatly type up his reports and touted the virtues of scientific policing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Such are the advantages of a really scientific education.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In the decade after 1927, sixty-six papers were published in scientific journals based on research carried out at Tower House. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There is no written record that Lawrence replied to the overture, although around the same time, he registered a private opinion of the federation—and of scientific activism in general—in a letter to Weaver. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The scientific complexities don’t matter to me as much as the human ones do. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Humbleness is in order; there is no excuse for scientific conceit here. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Many people voiced the opinion that space exploration wasn't a military matter but a scientific one. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The charter does not speak about the eradication of classes and private property, or public ownership of the means of production, or promulgate any of the tenets of scientific socialism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Although I still thought belief without scientific support was suspicious, it felt like the right thing to say. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “Their brains were less metabolically active,” as Dr. Strayer explains it in slightly more scientific terms. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He had turned it into a scientific instrument. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Mr. Neely has decided to give us a break from cutting open small animals and watching boring videos to return to the scientific process. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Watson and Crick feared that they would wake up one morning, open the pages of an august scientific journal, and find the solved structure of DNA staring back at them. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But he also declared that error was an inevitable, even indispensable, part of the scientific method. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Quite apart from his great scientific talents,” he told Neylan, “I have always regarded him as a man of fine personal qualities of character, loyalty, and integrity.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z An important consequence follows from this argument: we should not really expect to find reliable science before scientific communities began to take shape in the 1640s. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A typical scientific paper has never pretended to be more than another little piece in a larger jigsaw—not significant in itself but as an element in a grander scheme. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Euclid produced a textbook on geometry from which humans learned for twenty-three centuries, a work that was to help awaken the scientific interest of Kepler, Newton and Einstein. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad has lived & you show ignorance in calling him uneducated & unable to understand “the scientific meaning etc” of life’s problems. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child’s blindness, added to a student’s thirst for knowledge. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z It thus systematically excludes from consideration the very feature which makes scientific arguments distinctive: their appeal to superior evidence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Its extinction in the Southeast had been accomplished — a triumphant demonstration of the worth of scientific creativity, aided by thorough basic research, persistence, and determination. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He was a couple of years older than I was and very scientific, so he could always prove things. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “A fascinating trio they are, though. Suitable for scientific study, what? I suppose you want to hear the story of where I found ’em.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Part of Owen’s reaction was due to professional jealousy and jockeying for position in the scientific world. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z During the seventeenth century the meaning of key words shifted and changed, and a modern scientific—or rather metascientific—vocabulary slowly took shape. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There are piles of scientific periodicals and little china figurines of fat-faced children that belonged to my grandmother. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Maria deftly combined scientific information with gorgeously stylized leaves and flowers. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Lawrence eventually accepted the patenting of scientific inventions as a necessary evil. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This strategy, which also works well in chemistry and molecular biology, is so identified with science in the minds of many people that experimentation is often held to be the essence of the scientific method. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Not all of Kepler’s ‘distractions’ from his planetary work lacked scientific significance. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z This myth about spontaneous combustion would be accepted as scientific fact far longer than might be imagined. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “For scientific discovery, give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel, give me Amundsen; but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z That experience has made the difficulties in devising a scientific approach to human history familiar to me. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This wasn’t scientific or logical, but Emma was a little afraid of the Boring Room. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Neely had us go around and read our scientific questions out loud today. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The development of the cyclotron was begun several years before these discoveries on faith that the availability of controlled atomic projectiles within the laboratory would lead to important scientific progress. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Kepler stood at a cusp in history; the last scientific astrologer was the first astrophysicist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He had attended one of the most important seminars in his scientific life—and failed to take notes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue, are held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Nägeli was the scientific colleague whose respect Mendel most sought—and his notes to him took an almost ardent, desperate turn. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “He may be a first-class machinist, but he knows nothing about scientific principles,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, against the backdrop of scientific endeavour and machine-like precision there was a very human emotion that enriched every note of Handel’s solo arias in opera and oratorio: compassion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He watched me with a calm, scientific gaze. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “I told people I was participating in a scientific experiment,” Theodora said helpfully. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, when it came out that I was an American, my uncut hair provided no assurance that my scientific judgment was not equally bizarre. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z And if I go public, instantly I'm a scientific oddity, front-page news. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z All that would survive of their friendship was the scientific legacy they had built together, and the very distinct legacies that would outlive them both. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Karl shakes his head at me when I try to tell him about the scientific studies Mr. Campbell set forth in his Soil Culture Manual. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z When the GAC weighed the two proposals, questions of morale and laboratory politics, not scientific merit, came to the fore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Mr. Neely was the only teacher to assign something over winter break, and his “homework” was simply to keep thinking about our scientific process experiments. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A scientist who replaces murine model with rats and mice will use up no more space on the page and be no less scientific. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But scientific experimentation is manual labor, from which the slaveholders are preferentially distanced; while it is only the slaveholders—politely called “gentle-men” in some societies—who have the leisure to do science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As a friend of Linde’s, I was rather embarrassed, however, when I was later sent his paper by a scientific journal and asked whether it was suitable for publication. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Privately held knowledge is not really scientific knowledge at all because it has not survived the test of peer review. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Mostly the former; it had been a costly war despite the valiant predictions of the Pentagon and its smug scientific vassal, the Rand Corporation—which had, in fact, existed not far from this spot. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z It was the old Ernie Lawrence, distracted by gadgetry and apparatus instead of burying his nose in scientific journals. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This underscored Bush’s esteem for the breadth of Lawrence’s scientific knowledge and his emollient managerial technique. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He bought every available book on bacteria and began sending for magazines that printed articles of a mildly scientific nature. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He ridiculed their devotion to the machine as “a mania for gadgets or a post-infantile fascination for scientific meccano games.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z So although it became one of the most famous scientific meetings in history, one in which evolution and religion fought on center stage, Charles Darwin was not there. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z That idea was parried by Oppenheimer, who argued that the “discouragement of the Berkeley group would result in the loss of something valuable to the national scientific health.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When the experimental method is successful in explaining what was previously inexplicable, it thus not only establishes particular scientific theories, it also confirms the validity of the general approach which underpins experimentation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There is an almost ungovernable, biologic mechanism at work in scientific behavior at its best, and this should not be overlooked. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Slung between the two giants of modern biology, he was inevitably haunted by an acute sense of scientific inadequacy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In 1917, three years later, the American Geographical Society awarded Roosevelt a gold medal for “scientific achievement in the field of geography in the Southern Hemisphere.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The creature was a scientific marvel, and they had burned and buried it like trash. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The reason for this is very simple: Bacon made no scientific discoveries himself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z From around the middle of the seventeenth century there is a flood of adjectives that appear in English for scientific experiments, theories or discoveries, all based on the names of scientists. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But after coming in with her every Thursday to pick up her paycheck, I can say with confidence that I have enough evidence to form a scientific opinion of this place. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Cutting open Abraham Lincoln’s brain and body served little scientific purpose. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "I wish only to point out that a scientific terminology exists," the man said, emphasizing his words with his pipe. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The widespread neglect of the problem of chemical mutagens is perhaps due to the fact that those first discovered were of scientific interest only. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Fact: Grapes don’t always explode with scientific reliability. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “It is particularly a great pity that they are frittering away so much time and energy on political problems, when they could be devoting themselves to scientific pursuits.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The word atom, used in the modern sense, first entered scientific vocabulary in John Dalton’s paper in 1808. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Such a mission would reap enormous scientific benefits, even if there is no life on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1616 the famous Galileo Galilei, another Copernican, was ordered by the church to cease his scientific investigations. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A scientific law marks the point beyond which there are no explanations, although further explanations sometimes come along later. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “The safety of this nation,” he insisted, “cannot lie wholly or even primarily in its scientific or technical prowess. It can be based only on making future wars impossible.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We have no scientific evidence for, or against, this assumption. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She talks about all those pretty scientific words, all those Big Terms, and justifies all those footnotes in her book. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He runs the new neuroimaging lab at the University of California at San Francisco, one of the world’s leading scientific institutes. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Goudsmit told Berg that based on reliable information coming out of Germany, Werner Heisenberg would be leaving the country on or about December 15, traveling to Switzerland for a scientific conference. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He used ornate Spanish words that we assumed were scientific talk for teeth, gums, and tongue. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Only once before in our history was there the promise of a brilliant scientific civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At the White House, he dismissed Byrnes’s concerns by pointing out that the scientific team behind the bomb included Ernest Lawrence and three other Nobel laureates, along with “practically every physicist of standing.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Offhandedly, he scribbled one of the most important scientific sentences that he would ever write: “Each variety is constant in its own Island.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Whatever the scientific theory, I loved the idea of creating my own mini twinkling star, even if it only lasted for a microsecond. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Louis never minded if his scientific staff had higher degrees or not: The important thing, as far as he was concerned, was that they had knowledge and were hardworking and dedicated. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Like the scientific inventions that were sparking into life all around him, heralding the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, this music was intended, primarily, to benefit and enlighten all. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Most had religions that focused on human sacrifice, dark by contemporary standards, but their economic and scientific accomplishments were bright. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Still, Dr. Strayer had amassed a trove of data, much of it peer- reviewed and published in respectable scientific journals. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Members of the scientific community did not say such things. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z As for Mason and Dixon, they returned to England as scientific heroes and, for reasons unknown, dissolved their partnership. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He managed to track down a copy of the actual scientific paper and to persuade scientists at the US Atomic Energy Commission to explain to him what it meant. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And what of the scientific analysis that said that the surface of the Getty kouros could only have aged over many hundreds or thousands of years? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Freak gets this very cool, scientific look on his face, and he always says the same thing: "The bionic research continues, my friend. The work goes on." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Under the circumstances, scientists’ fealty to military and political orthodoxy trumped their honest scientific judgment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The chief difference between them and our modern scientific myth of the Big Bang is that science is self-questioning, and that we can perform experiments and observations to test our ideas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His scientific interests could be thoroughly down-to-earth, not just concerned with the heavenly spheres. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Richardson also happened to be the botanist who first wrote a scientific description of H. mackenzii and gave the plant its botanical name. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was clear that a way had to be found to capture the profits of laboratory discoveries without undermining academic standards or constraining scientific inquiry. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It may not be great poetry, but it gives you a feel for how impressed the scientific world was with Boyle’s discoveries. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, no doubt by accident, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Fermi, much of Oppenheimer’s scientific dream team was European, many of them Jews who had escaped from Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It is necessary to write scientific papers for the benefit of other scientists doing field research in different parts of Africa or working with captive chimps. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z This coincidence makes 1543 a convenient marker for the start of the scientific revolution that would transform first Europe and then the world. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z There was a section for inventing and a section for building and one for scientific study and one for botany and one for the study of magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Witsen was a member of the prestigious Royal Society of London, one of Europe’s first “scientific” groups. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “They always say immigrants should go into scientific fields, like medicine or computers,” I finally reply. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z But scientific method was Thyon’s religion, and it dictated the repeat of experiments—even of failures. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z More than theology or philosophy, Darwin was drawn to natural history—the study of the natural world using systematic scientific principles. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Now the sky presented the greatest scientific puzzle they had ever encountered, and they were all considering their place in it, and their chances of solving it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z After spending the next summer at Folsom, he introduced the site to the world at a major scientific conference. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Science replicates itself by indoctrination, since scientific communities work most efficiently when they are agreed about what they are trying to do. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But they’d seek his help for physics and even software coding, a tribute to a rare depth and breadth of scientific capability. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z What if the scientific tradition of the ancient Ionian Greeks had survived and flourished? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Low level, and not very scientific, but that's what makes it crazy. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A postscript asked for information on what his scientific clowns were up to. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z What might happen to the unfettered give-and-take among scientific colleagues if they were turned into rivals when the search for truth was overtaken by the race for commercial advantage? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She worked for Mikayla’s mom in a lab at Lancaster University and did all these scientific things, talking about plants and genus and species all the time. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z As long as Strauss remained a minority voice on the Atomic Energy Commission, however, he could only chafe powerlessly at Oppenheimer’s exalted role as the AEC’s leading scientific advisor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But the ascent of Nazism sent an immediate chill through the German scientific establishment. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Details, such as scientific words and voices of authority figures, sounded genuine. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Horace made scientific instruments and was for a short time mayor of Cambridge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Only rarely did he allow an undisguised racist remark to slip through, like the time he referred to “the purely scientific statistical evidence of natural racial distinctions in group intellect.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He was fluent in several European languages and acted as a kind of clearing house for scientific information, communicating by letter with scientists all over Europe. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z An act never before seen in the scientific world! Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z In the 1940s, Dobzhansky would attack these questions directly: he would eventually become one of the most strident scientific critics of Nazi eugenics, Soviet collectivization, and European racism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There were three or four glass-fronted cabinets containing antique scientific instruments—brass microscopes, telescopes covered in green leather, sextants, compasses; it was clear why he wanted the alethiometer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Below each gay scrap of color was a scientific name in my grandfather’s careful copperplate script. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z But at the end of his scientific articles, there was always a plaintive sentence about how much more hands-on, real-world research needed to be done before the decision tree could be used in clinical practice. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “I thought everything might go back to normal. There’s scientific evidence that if we stop using parts of our brains, those sections will eventually cease to function, you know.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Even Daryn Lehoux, who thinks the Romans had everything we have, acknowledges one exception: There were no ancient universities, no scientific conferences, no journals where investigators published their results. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I also relied on extensive archival photos and documents, scientific and historical research, and the personal journals of Henrietta’s daughter, Deborah Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z That could be done not through scientific and technical expertise but only by eradicating war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There were, as yet, no prizes or medals for scientific achievement; but in Galileo’s imagination such rewards already existed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They were also amongst the first to become Christians, to build better houses, and to use scientific methods of agriculture, and they were wealthier than their Xhosa compatriots. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The next scientific step was to compare seriously the experimental X-ray data with the diffraction pattern predicted by our model. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Lesser decided to defy the opinion of his scientific advisers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom White had no formal training as a law-enforcement officer, and he struggled to master new scientific methods, such as decoding the mystifying whorls and loops of fingerprints. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Holmes told Erickson he was using the chloroform for scientific experiments. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Lawrence, unmoved, pointed out that Alvarez himself had produced an impressive number of research papers during the very period he claimed that scientific research had been hobbled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The scientific data says there is a sixfold increase in crash risk.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It’s clear to him that the invaders possess “scientific knowledge far in advance of our own.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He was a great Talmudist, but he had been trained in a European yeshiva, and I didn’t think he would take kindly to the scientific method of studying Talmud. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Dr. Strayer said he’d published more than fifty articles in major scientific journals, around twenty of them on issues pertaining to driving impairment, attention and distraction behind the wheel. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But most important, hips are scientific, I say repeating what Alicia already told me. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z One thing that did not change was the lab’s slapdash approach to scientific procedure, including safety procedure. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Arrows directed guests to hundreds of hands-on scientific exhibits. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The theory was a good scientific theory, in the sense described in Chapter 1: it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Because my blanket is a scientific artifact now. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This conceptual framework has proved remarkably stable, even while the scientific knowledge it is used to describe and justify has changed beyond all recognition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But we did not want to send primarily scientific information. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If the powerful scientific revolution that had swept through Europe in the eighteenth century had one legacy, it was this: the laws that ran through nature were uniform and pervasive. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Bach’s Lutheran Christianity, unlike the Papal Catholicism with which Galileo Galilei battled, was at ease with scientific investigation and the widening education of its laity - indeed, it positively encouraged it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z All the top scientific minds of the age worked on the problem. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The question I ask is not ‘Were Regiomontanus and Hobbes right about mathematics?’ but ‘How did their understanding of mathematics help lay the groundwork for reliable scientific knowledge?’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z While my family’s history of mental illness was cutting through my consciousness like a red line, my scientific work as a cancer biologist was also converging on the normalcy and abnormalcy of genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The Soviets had no way of knowing that Oppenheimer had just been named the scientific director of the American atomic bomb project, but they knew he was a top American physicist. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Darwin knew Charles was going to have his first book published, an account of his voyage on the Beagle, and it was clear that he had a promising scientific career. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Marcos smiled his immutable smile before the avalanche of questions and posed for photographers without offering the least technical or scientific explanation of how he hoped to carry out his plan. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As if to prove his point, headlines flared in 2007 when a twenty-six-person scientific team led by the oceanographer James Kennett proposed that a comet three miles in diameter struck Canada eleven thousand years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The search for scientific truth was never an end in itself, but a means toward attaining the wisdom necessary to achieve peace of mind. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The Explorer and Sputnik programs continued with scientific exploration, although both the United States and the Soviet Union still had the occasional failure. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The observatory was christened Uraniborg, after Urania, the Muse of astronomy, and over the years developed into a major scientific institution with observing galleries, library and studies. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z They found the scientific establishment ridiculous and plodding, yet they knew how to insinuate themselves into it. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I add, because my scientific brain knows that room-temperature water is much better for vocal cords than cold or hot. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z So it’s in the spirit of a scientific experiment that I present myself at the office, wondering if my speckled and inflamed appearance will be enough to get me sent home. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This chapter has pointed instead to a sociological reality—the scientific network—and more concretely, the small crowd that surrounded Périer on the summit of the Puy-de-Dôme. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By then, what was to become the longest continuously enduring scientific society in the world had already begun to meet in London. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The great Caltech physicist Richard Feynman once observed that if you had to reduce scientific history to one important statement it would be "All things are made of atoms." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As one would expect, this first successful experimental community changed the way in which scientific communities were constructed and what they were used for. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I found it fascinating, a lot more substantial and scientific than Freud had been, and a lot more fruitful in terms of expanding testable knowledge on how human beings thought and learned. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Reverend Scheffler was unorthodox in one respect: he took a scientific approach to religion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Had Galileo belonged to a functioning scientific community, to take just one example, he would have been firmly discouraged from placing his theory of the tides at the centre of his defence of Copernicanism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z With Muller’s discovery a vast new field of scientific and medical knowledge was opened up. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z After a long mystical sleep in which the tools of scientific inquiry lay moldering, the Ionian approach, in some cases transmitted through scholars at the Alexandrian Library, was finally rediscovered. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Incidents like the eastern Illinois spraying raise a question that is not only scientific but moral. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I try to be a perceptive person who follows the scientific method and is observant, but I hadn’t noticed before that the whole bed was completely covered in nails. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In formal terms, the scientific panel would have the opportunity to give its advice on any subject brought before the interim committee. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z However, the tortoise theory fails to be a good scientific theory because it predicts that people should be able to fall off the edge of the world. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the first step in the scientific process! The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But this twist effectively marks the birth of a new philosophy of science: a scientific principle is now an hypothesis that has survived the test of experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Moreover, the whole scientific enterprise must be arranged so that the separate imaginations in different human minds can be pooled, and this is more a kind of game than a systematic business. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z With the publication of his novels The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau in the mid-1890s, he became known for his innovative scientific romances, today known as science fiction. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “Sonny, we must approach this enterprise in a scientific manner!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A good naturalist needed more than just a scientific mind—she needed artistic skill. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If Newton had never lived, scientific progress might have been held back by a few decades. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z So, when we finally come to Wotton’s formulation of a tacit reserve, we encounter, for the first time, a sound comprehension of the nature of scientific knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This phenomenon leads to nonsense when people attribute the regression to the mean to some particular scientific law, rather than to the natural behavior of any random quantity. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z From her point of view, claiming that Amazonian societies could escape their environmental constraints was little more than a display of scientific ignorance, the archaeological version of try- ing to design perpetual-motion machines. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I’m investigating acute angles and their effect on impact. Mr. Neely said I could use it for my scientific process project.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Getting such people interested in a numerical or scientific fact for its own sake or because it’s intriguing or beautiful is almost impossible. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought comes that Western civilized, scientific, technologic society is a standing proof of human progress, in having risen above such imaginings. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Was some scientific hypothesis, well on its way to validation and ultimate public use, discarded because of unexpected findings on that cold winter day? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Both began as practical technologies and became scientific instruments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Among his longtime friends and colleagues, he had seen those who supported Oppenheimer get ritually humiliated by the personnel board, while those who doubted Oppie, like himself, were stigmatized by the scientific community. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Nor could dispensers of government patronage merely weigh scientific projects against one another: the cost of high-energy physics had become so great that broader priorities were implicated. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Consequently, we frequently find senior mathematical, engineering, and scientific people ardently wooed by industry and then subordinated to newly minted M.B.A.s and accountants. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, your instructors are well trained. They know their scientific facts. Everyone is well trained for his job. “It’s just that... without the memories it’s all mean-ingless. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Murry looked up from a copy of an English scientific magazine through which she was leafing. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was a difference between suppressing the publication of research findings and restricting the personal give-and-take among scientists that was indispensable for scientific progress. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z To trick him into giving scientific talks, his friends would stuff him into a taxicab and pay a one-way fare to the destination. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But Bertillonage was already being displaced by a more efficient method of identification that was revolutionizing the world of scientific detection: fingerprinting. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I swing down and report my findings to Beetee, who seems satisfied, even if I’m not terribly scientific. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She was beginning to see how narrow her scientific horizons were. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z With him, no matter what happened, I felt “scientific.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z On the scientific side, apart from the work on gravity, in 1678 Hooke came up with his best-known piece of work, the discovery of the law of elasticity which bears his name. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “We hope to triumph upon three heads, therefore, introducing His Lordship to opportunities in the New World for profit, for pleasure, and for unparalleled scientific progress.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z About chronology: Dates for scientific research refer to when the research was conducted, not when it was published. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The scientific panel’s role was never precisely spelled out. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If Oppenheimer ever wanted to share any scientific information with the Soviets, he could use this connection. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He imagined Benjamin, the scientific male in his group, beginning to read pages of rules and instructions with relish. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z And Boyle was a leading light in establishing the scientific method in England. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The ideas about scientific theories outlined above assume we are rational beings who are free to observe the universe as we want and to draw logical deductions from what we see. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Both Van Gogh and Seurat developed elaborate color systems, one entirely personal in its meaning, the other claiming to be “scientific.” History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t matter if you’re writing a middle school lab report or a real scientific paper. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “In terms of the scientific literature, you are correct.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z This argument involves denying that scientific claims are ever adopted because they fit the evidence better than the alternatives. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Deep within the scientific world’s powerful new tool—calculus—was a paradox. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The missive was duly placed in the hands of Alexander Sachs, a Russian-born economist with a scientific background and, more to the point, access to the White House inner circle as an advisor to FDR. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But his efforts would link his name forever with the issue of nuclear proliferation and cast a shadow over his scientific legacy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As a single man with no family responsibilities, he could meet with these experts, go to scientific meetings, and visit museums and libraries whenever he wanted to. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact they cared not at all about the war, about scientific inventions, about the advance of industry, the price of gold, or the latest extravaganzas in the world of fashion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Members of the scientific community were expected to “throw themselves into this exploration with everything they had,” he recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z However, Puthoff’s device is one in a long line of “free energy” machines—none of which, in the past, have withstood scientific scrutiny. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He has reached new and astonishing peaks of scientific success. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Except people of extremely low intelligence. It’s a scientific fact.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It was Rabi who retained Eisenhower’s confidence in this lofty scientific dispute, however. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This method, albeit unconventional, was not unusual for his time, but it also reflected Mendel’s scientific naïveté. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I am used to having to give the scientific explanation for Adah. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As one would expect, this was accompanied by a new commitment to the idea of scientific progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Why don’t news magazines and newspapers make appropriate use of scientific notation in their stories? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Prepared by the Presidents Advisory Committee on Science in March 1958 as a primer on spaceflight, the brochure laid out the scientific principles of travel beyond the Earth’s atmosphere in terms a layperson could understand. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Such scientific methods, Hoover proclaimed, would assist “the guardians of civilization in the face of the common danger.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She mentioned that there was one who had singular skills at caretaking, another who loved newchildren, one with unusual scientific aptitude, and a fourth for whom physical labor was an obvious pleasure. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The fact that chemicals may play a role similar to radiation has scarcely dawned on the public mind, nor on the minds of most medical or scientific workers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He stood there, talking about the scientific process—as if that mattered. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Explorer I was launched with a scientific unit that discovered the magnetic radiation belts around the Earth, later known as the Van Allen belts. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z But he could not have been unaware that solving the riddle of K-capture would be an important scientific achievement in its own right. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "I wish only to point out that a scientific terminology exists," the man said, emphasizing his words with his pipe. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus Descartes opted for the least common phrase available to him in French as a translation for lex naturae in order to give his phrase a precise reference to scientific laws, not moral ones. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What’s more, here was a way for Hoover, a deskbound functionary, to cast himself as a dashing figure—a crusader for the modern scientific age. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And I didn’t want to forget my scientific data. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In view of the scientific evidence of the vast biological potency of this chemical, the action seems a minimum safety measure. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He wasn’t a scientist, but he read all the scientific articles in the newspapers and magazines. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z We collected ferns and sticks to run our own “scientific experiments,” which always resulted in incredible cures: Cure for Hiccups! The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There was no scientific proof of their existence. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He was prone to moving from concept to concept, but making big strides in a handful of key scientific camps. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Lourdes takes out scientific texts for him from the college library and he locks himself in his room to read for days at a time. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s nothing creepy about it. It’s scientific interest. Backy Medlin looks kind of decrepit to me. How old is he, do you reckon?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z His version left the scientific community dumbfounded, for by general agreement, there was no way to create “an absolutely clean bomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When I got older and more scientific, I received no more gifts from her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Like any other scientific theory, it may initially be put forward for aesthetic or metaphysical reasons, but the real test is whether it makes predictions that agree with observation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The study that founded modern biology was buried in the pages of an obscure journal of an obscure scientific society, read mostly by plant breeders in a declining Central European town. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The success of a scientific research programme thus depends not on its ability to generate new knowledge but on its ability to mobilize the support of a community. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps as a result, the most persuasive scientific critiques on Clovis initially came from fields that overlapped archaeology, but were mainly outside of it: linguistics, molecular biology, and geology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Catastrophism was particularly comforting to clerics like Buckland because it allowed them to incorporate the biblical flood of Noah into serious scientific discussions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He and Newton would tear the scientific world asunder, though neither would solve the problem of the zeros that suffused calculus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Inside was what Kurnakov described as a “neatly written report” outlining the basic scientific principles of the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "We judge through cultivating scientific objectivity," he said with a voice that had a smile in it, and suddenly I saw the hospital machine, felt as though locked in again. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z You have to be a specialist, and even then you can only hope to have a proper grasp of a small proportion of the scientific theories. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Like almost all other English scientists, he joined the war effort and became part of the Admiralty’s scientific establishment. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Despite scientists’ fears, the ethical crackdown didn’t slow scientific progress. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “It’s a weird genetic anomaly. I call it the Maya Paradox. I’m a world-class visible blusher despite loads of melanin. I’m pretty much a scientific wonder.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I was to keep his scientific notes for him, and to transcribe his weekly sermons. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z They realize that saving themselves is as easy as using basic scientific principles to build lots of booby traps. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It operated at warp speed and had massive storage capacity so that he could mine the scientific world on every front, synthesize the data, and adapt it to his needs. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “Leave it to them to focus on the negative and ignore a major scientific find!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z In the case of scientific knowledge the fog never clears: the summit is invisible and truth always remains out of sight. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Discovery is not in itself a scientific idea but rather an idea that is foundational for science: we might call it a metascientific idea. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Emma’s teachers were always telling her she had a scientific mind, but science only helped when you had enough data to come up with a good hypothesis. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z As scientists, Mom and Dad have a scientific solution: power down my phone at night. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Isn’t this just a larger snare with a more scientific component? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “It is good he has acquired a friend. Just so his friend does not teach him scientific criticism.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The Interim Committee met with its scientific panel for the first time on May 31 at the Pentagon, with Groves and Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall in attendance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “As I was saying: We are going to use the scientific method to test these hypotheses. After every experiment, you will be required to write up your results.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Lewis Strauss’s monopoly on the scientific information reaching Dwight Eisenhower was about to end, taking with it Ernest Lawrence’s influence over nuclear policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Despite his remote and comparatively humble situation, Michell was one of the great scientific thinkers of the eighteenth century and much esteemed for it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He swallowed his misgivings, vouched for Oppie’s scientific judgment to Compton, and escorted him to the Schenectady meeting. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It bothered him, like a sand grain in the eye of his scientific instinct. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The Oppenheimer case did more than heighten the conflict between scientists and bureaucracy; it also caused a deep rift within the scientific community that would not be healed for years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The precedent that tipped it for me was not legal; it wasn’t a precedent of what was going on in other states. It was a scientific precedent,” he says. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Her images were beautiful, lifelike, and precise—even scientific in their detail. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He became a full staff member of the Mount Wilson Observatory, learned many of the scientific underpinnings of his work and died rich in the respect of the astronomical community. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the scientific panel had proposed informing Britain, France, China, and Russia, in practical terms the real question boiled down to what to tell the Soviets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the early eighteenth century scientific laws begin for the first time to be named after their discoverers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Not long afterward, Stimson named a scientific panel to advise the committee: Ernest Lawrence, Robert Oppenheimer, Arthur Compton, and Enrico Fermi. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z During the past quarter-century almost no mention of it is made in the proliferation of scientific literature in entomology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Voyager spacecraft are the lineal descendants of those sailing-ship voyages of exploration, and of the scientific and speculative tradition of Christiaan Huygens. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As we talk about where music theory comes from, it will be very useful to know both the scientific and the musical terms and how they are related to each other. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The three people who between them established both the scientific method itself and the pre-eminence of British science at the end of the seventeenth century were Robert Hooke, Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Mr. Neely just wrote our first lab book assignment on the board in his scrunched-up, scratchy handwriting, and he’s getting all excited about this scientific process stuff. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was all too clear that the presence of popsies does not inevitably lead to a scientific future. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Since then, though, scientific measurements, mainly of pollen in lake sediments, have shown that the Maya did cut down much of the region’s forest, using the wood for fuel and the land for agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Lawrence was particularly vociferous about the need for mobilizing all scientific talent for the uranium program,” he wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One of Merton’s fundamental claims about science is that scientific knowledge is public knowledge—knowledge that has been made available for others to question, test and dispute. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We put our heads together and pondered, down in the underworld of the great scientific institute. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Holmes’ idea was evidently to guard his remains in every way from scientific enterprise, from the pickling vat and the knife,” the Public Ledger reported. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There was no easy way to judge whether this assertion had any scientific basis. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z James Fisk, who supervised the American side of the talks with a diplomatic skill unexpected of a scientific appointee, brought home an agreement designating the detection of nuclear bomb tests as “technically feasible.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Three hundred years ago, the Royal Society was set up: the first true scientific society in her world. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z So I told her about Operation Egg and the scientific process and Dari and Twig and all that business. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Turning abruptly, I went weakly back to the desk, seeing him looking up at me with his steady scientific gaze. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “I ventured to think,” stammered Bernard, “that your fordship might find the matter of sufficient scientific interest ...” “Yes, I do find it of sufficient scientific interest,” said the deep voice. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m thinking about doing something scientific for the talent show.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Their employment represented an expansion of the very idea of who had the right to enlist in the country’s scientific workforce. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z This solarium didn't have any scientific apparatus in it, though its skylights were big enough for telescopes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z They possessed the academic know-how, they possessed the technical and the scientific skills that could help to lead their mass of poor, black brothers out of our condition. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As an example of how Boyle approached alchemy in a scientific way, he took issue with the idea that gold could be made by removing impurities from other metals. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Basically, we’re supposed to observe something that interests us and spend all year applying the scientific process to our capital-Q Question. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Bush could not fail to be impressed by DuBridge’s instantaneous assent and what it indicated about Lawrence’s standing in the scientific community. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Struggling to meet their final assignment from the Interim Commit tee, the four members of the scientific panel convened at Los Alamos on June 15. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Mendel’s garden plot may have been small—but he did not confuse its size with that of his scientific ambition. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z However, there was a problem with the scientific revolution: zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But having made this mark on medicine and laid down a marker for the scientific approach in general, Vesalius suddenly abandoned his academic career although still not 30 years old. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “Sir,” he said, “kindly put your seal on the back of the portraits as they are scientific exhibits, and the images themselves must remain plain.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z As it turned out, Blue Eyes knew a lot more than the scientific classifications of plants and animals. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z It was an extraordinary demonstration of scientific percipience, and classic Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z US space officials dismissed the Soviet's plans to put a woman in space as more about besting the United States than any scientific interest in women in space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The facts might point to no cure, but if scientists let every obstacle get in their way, then there’d never be any major scientific discoveries. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Dear Oskar, While you certainly express yourself like an intelligent young man, without ever having met you, and knowing nothing of your experience with scientific research, Id have a hard time writing a recommendation. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Though this made no scientific sense, it seemed to work. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Dad always practiced what he preached, and it was just about impossible to tell where his scientific management company ended and his family life began. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I read somewhere, once, that crying defies scientific explanation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A moderate interpretation of the Duhem-Quine thesis leads to a mixed constructivism, in which evidence and culture each have a part to play in the construction of scientific beliefs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That scientific explanation enchanted Nicolas, but it did not enjoy the same reception with the Mora sisters, who were extremely conservative. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This estimate represents some middle ground among the varying scientific opinions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This was an exceptionally frank confession, though no less so than was demanded by scientific convention. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the postwar years, when an influx of demobilized students threatened to burst the seams of Berkeley’s outdated scientific facilities, California’s legislature and the university’s private patrons responded with unprecedented generosity. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The task, in other words, is to understand how reliable knowledge and scientific progress can and do result from a flawed, profoundly contingent, culturally relative, all-too-human process. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Later scientific revolutions have transformed our knowledge, but they have not melted down and recast our idea of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Long before Descartes we can find references to laws of nature in a scientific context, and scholars have struggled to disentangle the origins of the concept. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The youngest of the three scientists, von Tschermak had received news of two other parallel studies that fully corroborated his results, then waded back into the scientific literature to discover Mendel. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Virchow made significant discoveries in oncology—the treatment of tumors—and parasitology, the scientific study of parasites. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z With the scientific revolution, the purely logical world gave way to an empirical one, based upon observation rather than philosophy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Charles watched as in drawing rooms and scientific clubs all over the British Empire, in newspapers and journals around the English-speaking world, people argued about the book. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It is thus easy to think of scientific revolutions as deliberate acts, conducted by people who achieve what they set out to achieve. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When Hermann Muller arrived in Berlin in 1932, the city was home to the world’s preeminent scientific minds. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Could we venture out on a summer evening, our way illuminated by the two hurtling moons of Barsoom, for a journey of high scientific adventure? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The scientific name for the “corn” that was cultivated in the Americas is Zea mays. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z He filled his notebooks with the scientific aspects of love, with questions about breeding and heredity. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We knew that all those rabbits that had shaven bellies—our scientific knowledge adequately covered this point because it was our job to shave the rabbits—were undergoing Aschheim-Zondek tests. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been established in 1946 with the blessing of General Groves and under the guiding scientific spirit of I. I. Rabi of Columbia. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “It isn’t for drinking anyway. It’s for scientific purposes.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The Renaissance invention of one-point perspective—also called linear or scientific perspective—provided a geometric system for the convincing representation of architectural and open-air settings. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, the people whose business it is to ask why, the philosophers, have not been able to keep up with the advance of scientific theories. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Earlier in the day, an unusually temperate February morning, one of Dr. Atchley’s cognitive neuroscientist students had asked him about the scientific validity of intelligent design. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Here, Watson and Crick took their most intuitive scientific leap. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A scientific noun can launch a thousand questions—and the idea of the “gene” did exactly that. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But, as Kuhn also grasped, the fact that even the best-established scientific theories may not endure does not mean that they are unreliable, and it does not mean that science does not progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The story of Oppenheimer’s appointment to be scientific director of the Manhattan Project twenty years later is perhaps an even better example of this difference. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Michelson-Morley experiments would hover unpleasantly, like a musty smell, in the background of scientific thought. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z What is much more important than human genius is the development of technology, and it is no surprise that the start of the scientific revolution ‘coincides’ with the development of the telescope and the microscope. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “Just because Hitler speaks German doesn’t mean that the language is corrupt. It’s the most important scientific language in the world. What are you looking at me like that for?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Thus the no boundary proposal is a good scientific theory in the sense of Karl Popper: it could have been falsified by observations but instead its predictions have been confirmed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was a boy growing up in Boston, Route 128, the industrial belt around Boston, led the world in scientific creativity and imagination. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I looked over at Mr. Neely, and he grinned because it wasn’t the most scientific question ever, but it was the right one. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Unlike the United States, the Soviet government expected women to work outside of the home, and by the 1950s, many Soviet women were pursuing scientific and technical careers. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z As with most scientific revolutions, Rutherford’s new findings were not universally accepted. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z So they spent the summer making their own frugal way among the scientific landmarks of Europe. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I am calm; I regard the antics of my fellow students, who act like the textbook, with a combination of scientific curiosity and almost matronly indulgence. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z With my fingers too cold to write legibly I huddled next to the fireplace, daydreaming about how several DNA chains could fold together in a pretty and hopefully scientific way. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z For the foreseeable future, banishing zero from the universe with string theory is a philosophical idea rather than a scientific one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For the next seventeen years he was based at home in The Hague and devoted himself to the scientific study of nature. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Buried in textbooks and scientific papers, these insights would be ignored by powerful political forces that would soon embark on the most perverse forms of human genetic manipulations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “That question doesn’t quite prompt scientific investigation! Keep searching the world around you for a valid question!” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Wotton’s ‘Tacit Reserve’, which is the principle that all scientific reasoning is defeasible, is of fundamental importance. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But he also truly disagreed with Charles’s theory on both scientific and religious grounds. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He and the others were preparing a research paper about us—to be published in some scientific journal—so each morning he dictated the results of the previous day’s tests into a tape recorder. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Devised by the French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon in 1879, it was the first scientific method for identifying repeat criminals. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Instead, he said, “I know you’ve been having trouble settling on a scientific question.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I think Uncle Basil gets all of his scientific factoids from his beer buddies. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He must have known all along that the scientific life was not for me, that the jaws of the domestic trap were well and truly sprung. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z But its scientific findings, its epic discoveries, its travelers’ tales, do return. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes—that—to a scientific understanding of the world.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There were many motivations for these journeys: ambition, greed, national pride, religious fanaticism, prison pardons, scientific curiosity, the thirst for adventure and the unavailability of suitable employment in Estremadura. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When Correns completed his experiments and was ready to assemble his paper for publication, he returned to the library to find references to his scientific predecessors. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And as soon as HeLa became “general scientific property,” people started wondering about the woman behind the cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They signed it “From three of your former scientific colleagues during your stay in the United States.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As a result, the first meeting of the two men who were between them to lay the foundations of scientific astronomy took place at Benatky Castle on 4 February 1600. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Granddaddy had taught me that a scientific log was a citadel of the facts and that opinion didn’t enter into it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Nichols briefed the Joint Chiefs the next day, asserting that the entire scientific community endorsed the project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Until the middle of the nineteenth century that thinking symbolized the prevailing scientific thought about the human neural network. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z His scientific friends would speak to the latter question. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But he is creative in his own scientific way—a technician, an engineer, an analyst. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The communications, which appeared on adjoining pages of the Review’s March 15 issue, were notable for their divergent approaches to this important scientific effort. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z More broadly, scientific research does exist that supports the value of teaching the arts and humanities—and the perils of de-emphasizing them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The success of scientific theories, particularly Newton’s theory of gravity, led the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace at the beginning of the nineteenth century to argue that the universe was completely deterministic. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The scientific facts released by the Food and Drug Administration clearly indicate the carcinogenic nature of aminotriazole in laboratory rats. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I manage to say: "It's not a scientific way to view event sequence, but given what's gone on in my life, I completely understand." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Virginia, a state with one of the highest concentrations of scientific talent in the world, led the nation in denying education to its youth. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Their pronouncements on scientific, social, and even political issues were eagerly sought and widely published. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By such lessons did I become acclimated to scientific calculation in even the meanest function, so learning the secrets of tare and gross. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For his part, Charles admitted that Emma had been right when she said that his looking at the world in a scientific way probably precluded him from looking at it in a religious way. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z After a scientific expedition to America, Aronnax ruminates over the true nature of the incidents. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Every year, he dispatched his most promising graduate astronomers to the great European centers of scientific learning, such as Cambridge, Manchester, Paris, or Gottingen, Germany. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z No scientific bureaucracy existed in the government to assume the task, so Watson created one on the fly. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The data collected on the colored pilgrims and their descendants over years and decades, the doctor said, will prove one of the boldest scientific enterprises in history. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Not wanting to replicate Xaviera Hollander’s “Call Me Madam” column in Penthouse, Hefner saw Luce’s contribution as being devoted to the scientific and historical side of sex. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Neely had us present our scientific process projects this week. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Instead, he remained offstage, leaving the campaign of condemnation to Karl Compton, who was serving as scientific advisor to the occupation forces and publicly labeled the cyclotron destruction “an act of utter stupidity.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Over a period of several years I doggedly sifted through the scientific literature, hoping to find a clue that would explain this conundrum. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But according to the approach I described in Chapter 1, a scientific theory is just a mathematical model we make to describe our observations: it exists only in our minds. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt as if I’d been working out a giant scientific mystery all this time, and I hadn’t even known it, and now all my questions and observations and data were click-click-clicking. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He’s also seeing the trick through another lens, a scientific one. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z As its birthright, the corporation received Cottrell’s patent and his directive that it be exploited for profit to fund grants for scientific research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Boe hasn’t even been able to publish his findings in a scientific journal, because, he says, it’s just a bit too weird. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z By outlining the cyclotron’s vast potential for advancing the peacetime goals of basic science, Ernest convinced Fosdick that the machine just might serve as a beneficent scientific counterbalance to Hiroshima. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In this, as in many other scientific debates when foresight would eventually trump nearsightedness, Lawrence was right. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If God could be put back into the equation, then many people would have no trouble reading Charles’s book and accepting the scientific argument. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Newton was guarded about his discoveries and fiercely competitive with his scientific colleagues. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In English, apart from a couple of occurrences in a text of 1589, ‘scientific’ does not appear until 1637, after which date it becomes increasingly common. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z "It is time," Helms pontificated in a 1960s TV editorial, “to face, honestly and sincerely, the purely scientific statistical evidence of natural racial distinctions in group intellect.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Then there was the even more important consideration that Delbriick hated any form of secrecy in scientific matters and did not want to keep Pauling in suspense any longer. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Berkeley and its remarkable style of scientific inquiry was on the rise, and that was Ernest Lawrence’s doing—mostly. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Class, look at what these scientific explorers found!” he said. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z If the problem is not solved, we will lose most of our pictures and other scientific data. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To test this assumption, a scientific team from the United States Public Health Service sampled restaurant and institutional meals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes they did errands in town together, but Charles also went off to scientific meetings or to talk to an expert about his specimens. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z After Trinity, the drive toward the bombing of Japan proceeded without further consultation with the scientific panel. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Any form of scientific dissent to his theories—especially any belief in Mendelian genetics or Darwinian evolution—was outlawed in the Soviet Union. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Academia was just beginning to sense the United States government’s potential heft as a patron of scientific research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In fact, in the summer of 2013, not long after this experiment got under way, Dr. Gazzaley and his team scored a huge scientific coup. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Cardinal Bellarmine himself looked through Galileo’s telescope and appointed what we would now call a scientific subcommittee of learned priests to examine Galileo’s claims for the instrument. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z We need scientific answers, which is why I have called in the county police. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Micrographia really did mark the moment when microscopy came of age as a scientific discipline. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z On the scientific side, Galileo had scarcely got settled in Bellosguardo when he became embroiled in a new controversy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z His scientific conclusion: the Congolese do not become attached to their children as we Americans do. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Between the late 1950s and the 1970s, however, it was the physiology of genes that dominated scientific inquiry. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Pushed by a worldwide media furor, a dozen scientific teams looked for similar evidence in other archaeological sites. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In astronomy this is true; but in all the other fields of scientific enquiry the word consolidates a conceptual revolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He stares at me, his eyes following my body from my head to my feet, not lingering anywhere—a practical, scientific gaze. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The standard argument is that this thesis proves that evidence does not determine what scientists hold to be true; consequently, it is claimed, scientific beliefs are primarily shaped by cultural and social factors. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As far as we are concerned, events before the big bang can have no consequences, so they should not form part of a scientific model of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Whereas White had once turned to preachers to illuminate this thing of darkness, he now also searched for a scientific explanation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But don’t run away with the idea that Harvey invented the scientific method. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Fraternal twins come from two totally separate eggs, and the differences between us were obvious: I got all the scientific genes, and Harry got all the artistic genes. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Newton’s supposed discovery only imposed itself on the scientific community because Newton acquired ‘control over the social institutions of experimental authority’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Museum had announced a special “children’s program” in which exhibits of scientific witchery scaled down to the child mind were to be shown. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The first and last chapters explore the scientific origins of the Industrial Revolution, which turn out to be earlier and closer than previously suspected. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This complaint was an outgrowth of the lab’s chronic shortcoming: the lack of time for basic scientific experimentation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Those who think that modern science derives from the empirical experimental enquiries of craftsmen and artisans need to account for the extraordinarily slow evolution of water-wheel technology prior to the introduction of Smeaton’s scientific method. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Have you thought any more about your scientific question?” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Thanks for the kind words about my work, and best of luck with your explorations, scientific and otherwise. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z This is of no significance to his scientific work, but may provide another clue to his secretive nature. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “Of course,” I said back, pleased that our discussion sounded so scientific and professional. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She had to explain the scientific method she had used in order to overcome the senator’s pragmatic resistance. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He found out the next day at a meeting at the Ritz Hotel with Samuel Goudsmit, a physicist who was the scientific head of the Alsos mission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I was attracted to the scientific underpinnings of dialectical materialism, for I am always inclined to trust what I can verify. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence thereby presided over a transformation of American science as profound as any change inspired purely by scientific discovery: the launch of peacetime government patronage. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In barely a decade membership grew to four hundred–still all gentlemen, of course–and the Geological was threatening to eclipse the Royal as the premier scientific society in the country. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Probably the one with scientific aptitude was Benjamin, the male who had devised new, important equipment for the Rehabilitation Center. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a strange scientific conference; the fate of the entire medical research institute rested in our ignorant, black hands. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite his more frivolous side, Rostipov had caused an uproar in scientific circles because he spent his free time curing hysteria with magic wands and hypnotic trances. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The full scope of the dangerous interaction of chemicals is as yet little known, but disturbing findings now come regularly from scientific laboratories. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Extra clothes, books, scientific instruments and specimens, chess sets, flags, lanterns, tools, sewing kits, lucky talismans, razors, barometers, combs, scissors, playing cards, dishes, silverware, photographs—each man added to the heap. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They hid their morbid curiosity behind the shield of scientific investigation. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There were major-league stakes: intellectual and scientific, financial, and, less often discussed, military. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They rarely attended training academies or steeped themselves in the emerging scientific methods of detection, such as the analysis of fingerprints and blood patterns. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Most of the time at home he spends poking through a huge stack of books and scientific journals. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be--will be utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Subsequent efforts to align musical pace with horological time, however, failed to ignite general enthusiasm; indeed, others were still attempting to match musical pulse with less scientific external sources. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The irony is that Osiander’s view is quite in keeping with the modern scientific world view. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z It made a bold scientific declaration: even in the mysterious jungles of the New World, toads did not spring from mud, leaves did not change into moths, or butterflies into birds. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My own scientific curiosity eventually blossomed, but I knew enough to keep my freakish experiments to myself. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Did they prove anything scientifically about us before they killed us? No. They killed us first and then tried to get some scientific proof about why we should die.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Pam leans on her elbows in my direction, a move that causes me to develop an intense, nearly scientific interest in my shoelaces. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Kepler, on the other hand, lectured on astronomy in schools, published extensively and often at his own expense, and wrote science fiction, which was certainly not intended primarily for his scientific peers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Various scientific studies have established the critical role of birds in insect control in various situations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Convinced that rowing instruction needed to be more scientific, he pored over anatomy books and physics texts. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Their figure of £ 1 million was forwarded to Henry Thomas Tizard, the Oxford University chemistry don spearheading his country’s scientific effort in the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I wanted you all to connect to these words in personal ways, not just the scientific ways that we read about.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z There, he learned the same rational, scientific approach to testing and experimenting that had proven that the sugar that comes from beets is the same as that which comes from cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Though she did not know the scientific names of her insects—these species were unknown in Europe—she decided she did not really care. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Later, I tried to think of a scientific question for Mr. Neely, but I just kept thinking, over and over, like an annoying song stuck in my head, Mom would’ve helped me with this. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z If monotheism was what counted, there would have been a scientific revolution in the Islamic and Orthodox worlds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Ziman, in a recent Nature essay, points out, “the invention of a mechanism for the systematic publication of fragments of scientific work may well have been the key event in the history of modern science.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Although they were working daily in a building where scientific history was being made, the light of curiosity was never in their eyes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It would mean he skipped his last year of high school, but that’s entirely possible considering how he spoke in incomprehensible scientific paragraphs when he got going. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Massive Chinese agricultural, scientific, and industrial efforts are described in a book that Life magazine recently published. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z What everyone later remembered was not so much Huxley’s long scientific argument but how he ended his speech. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Rutherford had relocated to Montreal and a professorship at McGill University, which featured a lavishly equipped laboratory funded by a Canadian businessman, in an early example of scientific patronage by industry. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I can only explain the scientific mania that overtook my father during that spring of ’59 as a symptom of the belief in progress that was infecting everyone back then. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z No matter where life took her, this “study book” would be her scientific legacy. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z For the rest of his life he would be draped with plaudits and honors, becoming, among much else, the first person in Britain knighted for scientific achievement. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He invited researchers from around the world to present scientific papers on cancer in minorities, and he petitioned the city of Atlanta to name October 11, the date of the conference, Henrietta Lacks Day. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Anyway, I think Mr. Neely has managed to brainwash me with his hashtags and experiments, because I kept thinking about the scientific process during therapy. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The boys race from their bunker and go running down their slack-dump firing range, the joy of youth and scientific interest playing across their delighted faces. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In the meantime another Nicholas turned Cusa’s philosophy into a scientific theory. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And his dad went on for twenty minutes about the scientific aspects of the current. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z For a considerable time—some centuries—the new scientific knowledge was confined within the boundaries of Europe and the ships and colonies of Europeans abroad. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z "We have a scientific plan and you set them off. Things are so bad they'll listen, and when they listen they'll go along." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Copernicus himself was an intermediate figure in the scientific revolution, and in one important way he resembled the Ancient Greek philosophers rather than the modern scientist. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z This was the beginning of what would be known, with even greater brevity, as the Rad Lab, and the launch of a new paradigm in scientific research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Noisy, active, obsessive, eccentric—with a dervishlike mind that spiraled from one scientific question to the next—Thomas Morgan was a professor of zoology at Columbia University. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z These circumspect words produced a scientific earthquake, for what Rutherford described was the first artificial splitting of the atom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He felt things were often connected in ways that no one could yet explain in scientific terms. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Because we will share scientific and mathematical insights with any other civilization, I believe that understanding the interstellar message will be the easiest part of the problem. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The scientific network is another term for that sociological reality: Pascal announced his discoveries to Mersenne’s network, and persuaded them that his facts were right by getting them to repeat his experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is also a testament to his scientific integrity that what did bother him, with far fiercer urgency, was the integrity of the internal logic of his own theory. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We resumed our debate, a battle to the death, with sharp scientific evidence to support our chosen theory—Tamika, Team Egg, and me, Team Chicken. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z To a certain extent, Conant was bluffing, for the rising concern in Washington and the scientific community about a possible German bomb made an allied effort seem imperative, regardless of the prospects of success. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was equally enthralled by Lawrence’s innovative Journal Club, that weekly free-form exchange of scientific data and news for graduate students, physics faculty, and the occasional visiting eminences that Oppie called Lawrence’s “other great invention.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Tiring of field and flock, in 1768 he moved to Edinburgh, where he founded a successful business producing sal ammoniac from coal soot, and busied himself with various scientific pursuits. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But the brave and lonely struggle of this man was to ignite the modern scientific revolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is easy to say that our world has been made by science or by technology, but scientific and technological progress depend on a pre-existing assumption, the assumption that there are discoveries to be made. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z While Hermann Muller’s scientific work was ascending to its zenith in Texas, his personal life was falling apart. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Of the two, Cope’s scientific legacy was much the more substantial. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Ideally, it should be possible to formulate every scientific argument in syllogistic terms, a syllogism being, for example: All men are mortal. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The presence of so many scientists in the suit, many of them from top institutions, challenges the standard argument that ruling against biological patents would interfere with scientific progress. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z "But all we have left is the wait. Your work schedules are cleared. All scientific experiments are suspended. Sleep if you can, run diagnostics on your equipment if you can't." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z For most geologists the idea of a devastating impact was, as Eugene Shoemaker noted, "against their scientific religion." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They liked Copernicanism as a mathematical device; they had no time for it as scientific truth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Father cited scientific proof that birds often molt during hot weather. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Ironically, even though embryology had launched the discipline of modern genetics, the reconciliation between genes and genesis would be a vastly more engaging scientific problem. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z That is, essentially, a way of recognizing the provisional and imperfect nature of scientific reasoning. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Evolution occurred in scientific progress as it happened in nature: a positive trait was passed along, then proliferated; obsolete characteristics withered away, and the technology and the organization evolved into something new. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As Europe slowly awakened from the Dark Ages, the void and the infinite—nothing and everything—would destroy the Aristotelian foundation of the church and open the way to the scientific revolution. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But the crucial modern inventions depend on prior scientific discoveries: in the case of the steam engine, Boyle’s law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What is new is the scientific community that is interested in experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts,” she wrote, “and...as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more and more happy.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In Paris America had made a half-hearted effort to show off its artistic, industrial, and scientific talent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And then she tilted her head and squinted at me like I was her scientific question and she was trying to investigate the answer. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He studied medicine, but found it not to his liking and turned instead to farming, which he followed in a relaxed and scientific way on the family estate in Berwickshire. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Mendel, despite his odd scientific lineage, and de Vries, despite his dubious personal hygiene, were right. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Since completing my Ph.D. in 1961, I have divided my scientific research efforts between two fields: molecular physiology on the one hand, evolutionary biology and biogeography on the other hand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, an entire cadre of “scientists”—geneticists, medical researchers, psychologists, anthropologists, and linguists—gleefully regurgitated academic studies to reinforce the scientific logic of the eugenics program. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Each begins its life as a rather abstract scientific concept, but grows to invade multiple human discourses—thereby transforming culture, society, politics, and language. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Agents were increasingly trained in what Hoover hailed as “scientific policing,” such as fingerprint and ballistics techniques. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The prevailing medical and scientific opinion of the day was that menstruation caused changes in the brain, such as being distractible and emotional and not thinking clearly. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The scientific problem that engrossed Fisher also involved reconciling biology’s “mind” with its “eye.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “You may be small in size, but your legless little life is a great gift to our understanding of the scientific method. And also our ability to pass seventh grade.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It requires an ability to move back and forth between the concrete and the abstract, the immediate example and a scientific theory, and this movement is conceptually and historically problematic. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Galileo makes only three references to the laws of nature, on each occasion when he is arguing against the theological objections to Copernicanism; there are no laws of nature in his more properly scientific works. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It would follow that when scientific views are abandoned and replaced by new ones it is because the new ones are thought to be better at succeeding, paying, etc. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If it hadn’t been for Bruno, Copernicanism might never have received such adverse attention from the authorities, Galileo might not have been persecuted and scientific progress in Italy might have proceeded more smoothly. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I still had to think of a scientific question, and maybe I could get some ideas from one of Mom’s books. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Called "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies," it is one of the most extraordinary scientific papers ever published, as much for how it was presented as for what it said. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When I turned in the drawings based on my scientific calculations to Mr. Ferro, he studied them, asked a few questions, and then called in Mr. Caton to do the work. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Libby’s research began in the global scientific race during the 1930s and 1940s to understand cosmic rays, the mysterious, ultrahigh- velocity subatomic particles that continually rain onto the earth from outer space. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She did not like the cattle business and she was pleased to have a scientific reason for the way she felt. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve never used it. You can use it to write down your scientific observations. You’re a regular naturalist in the making.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There were lists of scientific classifications for plants and animals, and even more lists for words I’d never encountered. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z In spite of the war between France and The Netherlands, Huygens’s life was mostly without incident outside his scientific work. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But I wish Albert would care about himself as much as the scientific world. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z An assignment to enter into a scientific correspondence—of sorts—with an adult. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z As a result, for us moderns, laws of nature are scientific laws and natural laws are moral laws. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z How is it possible for a historical activity, such as scientific activity, to produce trans-historical truths, independent of history, detached from all bonds with both place and time and therefore eternally and universally valid? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z According to them the scientific method is somehow natural, like walking, not artificial, like a watch. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Terryl hadn't looked at the scientific research, but it was showing that television could have a powerful impact on the relationship between parents and their children. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In order to talk about the nature of the universe and to discuss questions such as whether it has a beginning or an end, you have to be clear about what a scientific theory is. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This is a dazzling picture of modern man’s scientific and technological progress. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The divisiveness among scientific disciplines, especially between the basic sciences and the applied science of medicine, was then fostered deliberately by medical schools. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Academics in the softer fields dress up the trivial and obvious with the trappings of scientific sophistication, hoping to bamboozle their audiences with highfalutin gobbledygook. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Emmanuel knows that scientific progress cannot be stopped, and that someone else will eventually discover gravitons, but he admires the symbolism of the act. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The atom, the byte, and the gene provide fundamentally new scientific and technological understandings of their respective systems. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z From their habit of strolling around the campus of a great university or through the streets of the city while discussing such issues, the old school of ‘scientific’ philosophy was known as the peripatetic school. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z How quickly the bloom had gone off the whole idea of scientific correspondence. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The second, which recognized the very process by which Big Science grew bigger, made Lawrence even more the darling of every scientific research foundation in the land. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He concluded by saying he would rather have an ape for a grandfather than be descended from a man who introduced ridicule into a serious scientific discussion. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Recent discoveries lead us to create a new definition, which we can make using currently available scientific information. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “But if we have a record of people’s scientific discoveries or histories, they can relearn them in the hazy period after their memories are erased. People are very pliable then.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: “He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We should end by acknowledging that we have the scientific knowledge we have against all the odds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The empirical method of thought, on which ail the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The logical, scientific part of my brain agreed with Dari. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Do you think that history professors chat about the reasons for World War One when they meet for lunch, or that nuclear physicists spend their coffee breaks at scientific conferences talking about quarks? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z No one had ever traveled to the New World on a purely scientific mission. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z These agents were still learning scientific sleuthing, still adjusting to completing their reports on a typewriter. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z As a first step in this process, in March 1611 Galileo set off on a visit to Rome, as the official scientific ambassador of the Tuscan state. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z This happened at Naples when a small scientific meeting was held on the structures of the large molecules found in living cells. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The decline tracks the Maya priesthood’s steady loss of the scientific expertise necessary to maintain its complex calendars. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Indeed scientific knowledge, properly understood, must be seen to be both constructed and constrained. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At best, history is classified among the social sciences, of which it rates as the least scientific. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “He is an expert on all scientific matters pertaining to the deathless. Why, the man even traveled to Europe and Asia researching the undead. What would you know of the realm of academics?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Hollander’s essay and the comments of Lethem and Plagens cede ground and seem to grant that art and literature are too soft to withstand scientific examination. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I began sending her stacks of information I uncovered about her mother—scientific journal articles, photos of the cells, even an occasional novel, poem, or short story based on HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But in scientific language, a word conveys more than an idea—a mechanism, a consequence, a prediction. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z According to David J. Meltzer, a Southern Methodist University archaeologist who has written extensively about the history of his field, the bureau’s founders were determined to set the new disciplines on a proper scientific footing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Food fads still come and go with alarming speed: A scientific study, a new government guideline, a lone crackpot with a medical degree can change our nation’s diet overnight. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z At the same time, not unrelated, machines were being put to important scientific use: Researchers were trying to measure the ability of pilots and soldiers to sustain their focus while operating the advanced weaponry. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “You’ll spend this year developing your own scientific process, and it all starts with one question—that thing that sparks you to life.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They are both aspects of calculus, a scientific tool far more powerful than anything ever seen before. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Eisenhower, now fully alive to the limitations of the scientific advice Strauss had been feeding him, disingenuously asked him to explain the discord in the scientific community about the efficacy of monitoring. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The argument is simple: the language we use when thinking about scientific questions is almost entirely a construction of the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Jones never finished college, so when he was hired in 1934, it was as a subprofessional scientific aide, the category that most women fell into. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Farmer was in Europe for a scientific meeting. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z "I don't believe in the beast of course. As Piggy says, life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean-" Someone shouted. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Don’t get me wrong, I’m not about to write a scientific paper about this. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Another would be to say that he was wrestling with a scientific puzzle that had resisted resolution since 1840. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It has certainly been true in the past that what we call intelligence and scientific discovery have conveyed a survival advantage. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The time is now ripe for a fresh look at these questions, because of new information from scientific disciplines seemingly remote from human history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Along the way, he also worked out and published the first tables of human mortality, the scientific basis on which life-insurance premiums are calculated. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z That is partly because the scientific data seemed so compelling. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It radios all the scientific information it acquires back to Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Your background provides the context for your scientific quest. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Alvarez exploited his status as the scion of a prominent scientific family to haunt the place for several days, soaking up its unique atmosphere. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Soon the number of people who could grasp relativity had been reduced even further in the popular imagination–and the scientific establishment, it must be said, did little to disturb the myth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He’s been on pins and needles lately, hoping the results of the experiment could land in Nature, one of the leading scientific journals in the world. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We had accomplished something nearly scientific, after all. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Kuhn’s approach took the scientific enterprise as given, and so inevitably it missed the process of its formation, which was critical to the belated triumph of Copernicanism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is a testament to Darwin’s scientific audacity that he was not particularly bothered by the prospect of human descent from apelike ancestors. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z While some great naturalists still praised her books, she fell into disfavor with a scientific establishment that increasingly rejected the work of self-taught amateurs. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Foreign visitors were especially perplexed by the apparent absence of scientific ambition at the lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And it is a history of the paradoxes posed by an innocent-looking number, rattling even this century’s brightest minds and threatening to unravel the whole framework of scientific thought. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “And if you decide not to use it for the Wonderings project, I do want you to come up with a different scientific question by the end of the month.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In the years following Henrietta’s death, using some of the first tubes of her cells, researchers around the world made several important scientific advances in quick succession. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He did not hesitate to speak like that, to his father and his uncle, because the subject was books and scientific knowledge—those things that Rocky had learned to believe in. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Atomic physicists were particularly interested in biology; it was the unexplored frontier of scientific inquiry. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z "It's not so funny. It would be more scientific to try to define the case. It has been developing some three hundred years —" "Define? Hell, man, we know all that." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, it is more or less taken as modern gospel that profound scientific truth frequently accomplishes the opposite of what Epicurus recommended, costing us peace of mind. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Despite the ersatz patina of science, Mengele’s work was of the poorest scientific quality. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Bentley is thus an advocate of the Thomas thesis: an improved technology for dealing with disease, combined with better scientific knowledge, undermined belief in magic and witchcraft. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Others prefer scientific pitch notation, which simply labels the octaves with numbers, starting with C1 for the lowest C on a full-sized keyboard. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In comparison to sixteenth-century philosophy, all our sciences are applied sciences, and all our scientific knowledge is robust enough to withstand real-world application, if only in the form of experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That may not be a very scientific method for finding the east-west middle of the country, but it will do. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They were always posing some scientific hypothetical with each other for fun. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In scientific terms, though, Tyson is regarded as the founding father of comparative anatomy, which looks at the physical relationships between different species. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z There is a persistent myth, incidentally–and one propounded in many serious books–that Ussher’s views dominated scientific beliefs well into the nineteenth century, and that it was Lyell who put everyone straight. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Dr. Doris was worried that I wasn’t focused during our session, but really, I was just trying to answer my own scientific question: How many questions can I getDr. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I had begun this experiment in a spirit of scientific detachment. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who find an answer to all problems in spraying also overlook a matter of great scientific importance — the need to preserve some natural plant communities. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z "He reads deep books with long words in them. What was that word we----" "Well, these books are all scientific," insisted Tom, glancing at her impatiently. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The ancients did refer to the ‘laws’ of nature when they wanted to say that nature is regular and predictable, but they never identified any particular scientific principle as a law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I grin at her, dying to know how her scientific brain is going to deal with this epic level of coincidence. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Sickly, feeling abandoned by his parents, quarrelsome, unsociable, a virgin to the day he died, Isaac Newton was perhaps the greatest scientific genius who ever lived. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I take ‘laws of nature’ and ‘scientific laws’ to be synonymous, although I am aware that some philosophers want to use these as labels to distinguish two different types of law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Weaver had put his finger on the real shortcoming of the cyclotron lab, which was its scientific judgment, not its technical expertise. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And so the okapi is now by scientific account a real animal. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence had expected that the Rad Lab, like other scientific institutions, would be placed on a crash diet after the war as the torrent of military funding dried up. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Holism is in some of the scientific glossaries but has not yet made it into most standard dictionaries of English. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As an expert in interplanetary travel, I can tell you there are no scientific inaccuracies in the story. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z True to his word to Oldenburg, he did go into his shell and largely stop reporting his scientific ideas after this exchange in 1676. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He sounded like he was asking a scientific question and wanted to investigate. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The fellowships had been established by the National Research Council to support candidates from among the top 5 percent of PhDs in the country, making it an invaluable guide to a prospective candidate’s scientific ability. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z |
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