As a Humanist, Dr. Huxley interests himself in the possibilities of human development, and one thing we can say about this suggestion, which comes from a leading zoologist, is that, so far as he is concerned, the scientific outlook places no rigid limitation upon the idea of future human evolution.

All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.

1543 A.D. is often venerated as the birthday of the scientific revolution.

The `` conventional '' image of a particular time and place is not necessarily congruent with the image of the facts as established over the years by scholarly and scientific research.

And it is this, particularly the establishment of archaeology and place-name studies on a scientific basis, which are immediately pertinent to the Saxon Shore.

Ironic, is it not, that after completing years of costly scientific training he will receive a cut in pay from what he is receiving as an ordinary unskilled laborer??

The lack of scientific unanimity on the effects of radiation is due in part to insufficient data covering large population groups, from which agreed-on generalizations could be drawn.

The Institute is engaged in an extensive program of medico-military scientific research in both morphological and experimental pathology.

The task of providing a reasonable level of military strength, without endangering other vital aspects of our security, is greatly complicated by the swift pace of scientific progress.

It is the exploitation of the inherent potential of infectious disease agents by scientific research and development, resulting in the production of BW weapons systems.

The first is the strictly scientific, which demands concrete proof and therefore may err on the conservative side by waiting for evidence in the flesh.

What is left to traditional systems of philosophy is, in effect, only the history of these fields prior to their becoming rigorous enough to abide by the canons of scientific method.

The dissection of scientific theory, the examination of a theory from the vantage-points of language, epistemology, and ethics, is itself a distinct contribution to knowledge, no less so because of its removal from empirical research.

The tenacity with which present metaphysical attitudes fetishize private intuition offers the strongest evidence that the gulf between scientific and delphic ways of philosophizing is built into the present conflict over the limits and purpose of science, religion and ideology.

To raise the added objection that men require certainty on psychological grounds, answers to ultimate questions having an irrational rather than scientific basis, is in a real sense to undermine the objection itself.

For what concerns all scientific disciplines is precisely that which can be captured for the rational, i.e., for the scientific determination of what in past ages was considered ultimate and irrational.

Your present history is equally admirable for its industrial and scientific achievements.

aside from her specifically regional accent, she reveals by the use of the triad, `` irritable, tense, depressed '', a certain pedantic itemization that indicates she has some familiarity with literary or scientific language ( i.e., she must have had at least a high-school education ), and she is telling a story she has mentally rehearsed some time before.

The work done by the analysts, the men who really know what folklore is all about, has no more appeal than any other work of a truly scientific sort and reaches a limited, learned audience.

While we are filling outer space with scientific successes, for many the `` inner '' space of their soul is an aching void.

He is a Craig's wife who agonizes about tobacco ash on the living room rug and he is a forgetful genius who goes boating with the town baker when dignitaries from the local university have come to call.

Faust rescuing Helen from Menelaus' vengeance is the genius of renaissance Europe restoring to life the classic tradition.

The eternal truth is that progress -- due, as it always is, to individual creative genius -- is just as dependent on freedom as human life is dependent on the beating of the heart.

Even more poignantly, and with the insight of a genius, Channing added -- remember, this is Channing, not Parker!!

The Genius ( mythology ) | genius of Aeneas is shown ascendant, looking into the light of the future, while that of Turnus is setting, shrouded in darkness.

He is generally considered a world conquest military genius, given his successful strategy: he attempted to close all the Indian Ocean naval passages to the Atlantic, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and to the Pacific, transforming it into a Portuguese mare clausum established over the Ottoman power and their Muslim and Hindu allies .< ref >

In spite of these first impressions, the game has generally received positive reviews: Lafayette, for example, goes on to say that it is " really hard to fault GURPS Bunnies & Burrows ", as it is educational, realistic, whimsical and clever, while the game has also been described as a " work of genius ".

In his story " Gulf ", science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein used a constructed language, in which every Basic English word is replaced with a single phoneme, as an appropriate means of communication for a race of genius supermen.

It is precisely in the context of this challenge that he develops the concept of military genius, whose capabilities are seen above all in the execution of operations.

That he did represent the genius of the average is the most convincing proof of his strength.

The first ghola produced is that of their recently-deceased military genius, Miles Teg.

* In the story The Ablest Man in the World ( 1879 ), by Edward Page Mitchell, a computer is inserted into a man's head, turning him into a genius.

Edward is a young, eccentric computer genius and master hacker.

Charles is a genius with multiple doctorates.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

" Before Diderot ," Anne Louise Germaine de Staël wrote, " I had never seen anything in pictures except dull and lifeless colours ; it was his imagination that gave them relief and life, and it is almost a new sense for which I am indebted to his genius.

In estimating his place among scientific discoverers, the chief thing to be borne in mind is that his genius was not characteristically mathematical.

In earlier episodes, Davros is referred to ( albeit not by name ) twice: first in the episode " Dalek " by the Ninth Doctor, who explains that the Daleks were created by " a genius ... a man who was king of his own little world ", and again by the Tenth Doctor in the episode " Evolution of the Daleks ", where he refers to the Daleks ' creator as believing that " removing emotions made a race stronger ".

Their basic argument for the use of original works ( abridged translations being acceptable as well ) is that these are the products of " genius ".

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.

He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

but there is a leavening of liberalism among college graduates throughout the South, especially among those who studied in the North.

but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

To him, law is the command of the sovereign ( the English monarch ) who personifies the power of the nation, while sovereignty is the power to make law -- i.e., to prevail over internal groups and to be free from the commands of other sovereigns in other nations.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.