According to this view, either it is very hard for intelligent life to arise, or the lifetime of such civilizations must be relatively short.

According to Bruce Campbell's autobiography, If Chins Could Kill, Richard acquired his stage name by combining his short name with his roommates ' names, Hal and Del.

According to this theory, short term memory ( STM ) can only retain information for a limited amount of time, around 15 to 30 seconds unless it is rehearsed.

According to this view, " after observing a long run of red on the roulette wheel, for example, most people erroneously believe that black will result in a more representative sequence than the occurrence of an additional red ", so people expect that a short run of random outcomes should share properties of a longer run, specifically in that deviations from average should balance out.

According to the same index series, even " dedicated short bias " funds had a return of − 6. 08 % during September 2008.

* According to Alberti himself, in a short autobiography written c. 1438 in Latin and in the third person, ( many but not all scholars consider this work to be an autobiography ) he was capable of " standing with his feet together, and springing over a man's head.

According to several stories, this displeased the Hatano family, and a short while later several of Hideharu's retainers murdered Akechi Mitsuhide's mother ( or aunt ).

According to tradition, the same Patañjali was also the author of the Mahābhāṣya, a commentary on Kātyāyana's vārttikas ( short comments ) on Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī and of an unspecified work of medicine ( āyurveda ).

According to science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, " a handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

According to a story by William Van Horn, Fergus at some point had a short marriage with an unidentified woman, with whom he had the son Rumpus McFowl.

According to Harold Osborne, in France, the " characteristic development of the French arabesque combined bandwork deriving from the moresque with decorative acanthus foliage radiating from C-scrolls connected by short bars ".

According to Schultes ' and Anderson's descriptions, C. sativa is tall and laxly branched with relatively narrow leaflets, C. indica is shorter, conical in shape, and has relatively wide leaflets, and C. ruderalis is short, branchless, and grows wild in central Asia.

According to current scientific theory, the cosmos began 13. 7 billion years ago short scale in the Big Bang.

According to Hobbes, the lives of individuals in the state of nature were " solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short ", a state in which self-interest and the absence of rights and contracts prevented the ' social ', or society.

According to a 2012 Financial Times article, hedge funds are increasingly making most of the short term trades in large sections of the capital market ( like the UK and US stock exchanges ), which is making it harder for them to maintain their historically high returns, as they are increasingly finding themselves trading with each other rather than with less sophisticated investors.

According to Theoretical Synthesis, " when a stimulus is presented short and clarity is uncertain that gives a vague stimulus, perception becomes a top-down approach.

According to the San Francisco Herald, in a series of articles run in 1853, they give this honor to Captain Joseph R. Walker, who in January 1851 with his nephew James T. Walker and six men, traveled up the Colorado River to a point where it joined the Virgin River and continued east into Arizona, traveling along the Grand Canyon and making short exploratory side trips along the way.

According to Trillin, most Kolkata rickshaws serve people " just a notch above poor " who tend to travel short distances.

According to Matthew O ’ Callaghan who directed the short, the audio comes from a 1950s recording for a children's album.

According to a SourceForge. net announcement on their blog as a short term response, they have taken down services such as CVS Hosting, ViewVC ( web-based code browsing ), New Release upload capability, and Interactive Shell services.

According to another author, all international agreements are gentlemen's agreements because, short of war, they are all unenforceable.

According to Heise, he then talked to Steinhäuser for a short amount of time, luring him into the doorway of an empty room.

According to Thomas Schatz, Ford claimed that his inspiration in expanding Stagecoach beyond the barebones plot given in " The Stage to Lordsburg " was his familiarity with another short story, " Boule de Suif " by Guy de Maupassant.

According to Lovecraft's short story, R ' lyeh is a sunken city in the South Pacific and the prison of the entity called Cthulhu.

According to two reports in the original short story, their bodies consist of a form of matter that does not occur naturally on Earth ; for this reason, they do not register on ordinary photographic film.

According to Barks ' description of his childhood, he was a rather lonely child.

According to Jan-Gustaf Ljunggren, in an article in the Swedish journal Läkartidningen ( 1983 ; No 32-33 ), in the 12th century, Zayn al-Din al-Jurjani, another Muslim physician, provided the first description of Graves ' disease after noting the association of goitre and exophthalmos in his Thesaurus of the Shah of Khwarazm, the major medical dictionary of its time.

According to psychologism, logic would not be an autonomous discipline, but a branch of psychology, either proposing a prescriptive and practical " art " of correct judgement ( as Brentano and some of his more orthodox students did ) or a description of the factual processes of human thought.

According to some biblical scholars, the findings at Nag Hammadi have shown Irenaeus ' description of Gnosticism to be largely inaccurate and polemic in nature.

According to Weber's theses, social research cannot be fully inductive or descriptive, because understanding some phenomenon implies that the researcher must go beyond mere description and interpret it ; interpretation requires classification according to abstract " ideal ( pure ) types ".

According to he was not the first person to ever explain religion in this way, but his description of religion was novel because of the way he integrated this into his general account of princes.

" According to a later description, " Like all cultural watersheds, Ramones was embraced by a discerning few and slagged off as a bad joke by the uncomprehending majority.

According to the descriptivist theory of meaning, there is a description of the sense of proper names, and that description, like a definition, picks out the bearer of the name.

According to Grove Music Online, the term " pop music " " originated in Britain in the mid-1950s as a description for rock and roll and the new youth music styles that it influenced ...".

According to Blavatsky Occult science provides a description of reality not only at a physical level but also on a metaphysical one.

According to one description in 1996, " The area dies at night ...

According to his translator Smellie ( 1781 ), the description was taken from two black cougars exhibited in London some years previously.

According to the 54th Grammy Awards description guide, the award is given to the songwriter ( s ) of a song that " must contain melody and lyrics and must be either a new song or a song first achieving prominence during the eligibility year.

According to Austin's preliminary informal description, the idea of an " illocutionary act " can be captured by emphasising that " by saying something, we do something ", as when someone issues an order to someone to go by saying " Go!

According to Russell, " we need a description of the fact which would make a given belief true " where " Truth is a property of beliefs.

According to descriptivist theories, proper names either are synonymous with descriptions, or have their reference determined by virtue of the name's being associated with a description or cluster of descriptions that an object uniquely satisfies.

According to the bland description of a southern chronicler, he " succeeded to the kingdom of the Northumbrians ".

According to the catalogue description from the 2010 sale of the painting at Sotheby's, seven nudes were exhibited in the 1917 show.

According to a much used description, the Champs-Élysées is la plus belle avenue du monde (" the most beautiful avenue in the world ").

According to some Bible critics who contextually read this passage, the description of Onan is an origin myth concerning fluctuations in the constituency of the tribe of Judah, with the death of Onan reflecting the dying out of a clan ; Er and Onan are hence viewed as each being representative of a clan, with Onan possibly representing an Edomite clan named Onam, mentioned by an Edomite genealogy in Genesis.

According to Aristotle's description in Politics, " Some people thought he carried things too far, indeed, with his long hair, expensive ornaments, and the same cheap warm clothing worn winter and summer.

According to Tineke Willemsen, " feminist utopia would ... be the description of a place where at least women would like to live.

According to an 1849 description of what were then called the Big Meadows, " This marsh for three miles is certainly the liveliest place that one could witness in a lifetime.

According to the Hastings Gazette ," the party returned from their trip into Dakota Territory on Thursday, having located a goodly quantity of land, and gives a glowing description of the country ".