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Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
With due consideration for the limits of precision in assessing, expected rate of change in ossification of girls age 2 years, and the known variations in rate of ossification of these children as described in our preceding paper in the Supplement, each arrow with a `` shaft length '' of four months or less was selected as indicating `` same schedule '' at Onset and Completion, for this particular epiphysis.
With these gadgets -- impressive to the gullible because of their flashing light bulbs, ticks, and buzzes -- he then carries out a vicious medical con game, capitalizing on people's respect for the electrical and atomic wonders of our scientific age.
Indeed, in some periods of our history and in some neighborhoods the job opportunities have been so good that undoubtedly a great many boys who were potential members of the professions quit school at an early age and went to work.
We must not permit our society to become a slave to the scientific age, as might well happen without the cultural and spiritual restraint that comes from the development of the human mind through wisdom absorbed from the written word.
However, my principal objection in this sort of novel is to the hackneyed treatment of race-drivers, pilots, submariners, atomic researchers, and all the machine-masters of our age as brooding mystics or hysterical fatalists.
Rod Dreher writes the following: “ unshakable devotion to the land, to localism, and to the dignity of traditional life makes him both a great American and, to the disgrace of our age, a prophet without honor in his native land.
" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.
This mentality is difficult to understand in our modern age but the ancients took great stock in success as a sign of favoritism by the gods.
" Louis XIV was more forgiving to his old friend – " At our age, Marshal, we must no longer expect good fortune.
Irenaeus mentions that the Apocalypse was seen " no very long time ago almost in our own age, toward the end of the reign of Domitian ".
Hickey remembered later, " Mayr was our age and invited on all our field trips.
Portrait miniature of Drake, by Nicholas Hilliard dated 1581, reverse of " Drake Jewel "; inscribed Aetatis suae 42, An ( n ) o D ( omi ) ni 1581 (" 42 years of his age, in the year of our Lord 1581 ")
He also said, " the new fundamentalism of our age ... leads to the language of expulsion and exclusivity, of extremism and polarisation, and the claim that, because God is on our side, he is not on yours.
I pray to you to accept me as your husband and live with me until our old age.
The current era of star formation is expected to continue for up to one hundred billion years, and then the " stellar age " will wind down after about ten trillion to one hundred trillion years ( 10 < sup > 13 </ sup >– 10 < sup > 14 </ sup > years ), as the smallest, longest-lived stars in our astrosphere, tiny red dwarfs, begin to fade.
The last age had exhausted all its powers in giving a grace and nobleness to our mutual appetites, and in raising them into a higher class and order than seemed justly to belong to them.
Reflecting his immense influence on 20th-century thought, Hilda Neatby, in 1953, wrote " Dewey has been to our age what Aristotle was to the later middle ages, not a philosopher, but the philosopher.
After Guevara's death, Sartre would declare him to be " not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age " and the " era's most perfect man.
He wrote that " the historical trend of our age is the fatal crisis which capitalist production has undergone in the European and American countries where it has reached its highest peak, a crisis that will end in its destruction, in the return of modern society to a higher form of the most archaic type — collective production and appropriation ".
Gormenghast trilogy is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age.

our and Science
In our present era of Science and Angst, the heart has been downgraded, to use one of our popular retrogressive verbs ''.
Science has simply left us helpless and powerless in this important sector of our lives.
Science is placing in our hands the ultimate power of the universe, the power of the atom.
In a review of Charles Babbage's book Decline of Science in England in John Murray's Quarterly Review, he suggested the creation of " an association of our nobility, clergy, gentry and philosophers ".
* Understanding Our Microbial Planet: The New Science of Metagenomics A 20-page educational booklet providing a basic overview of metagenomics and our microbial planet.
RedToL, the Red Algal Tree of Life Initiative funded by the National Science Foundation highlights the role red algae or Rhodophyta played in the evolution of our planet through secondary endosymbiosis.
He used this knowledge to save books from the great library of Ephebe in Small Gods and to enter our world via the library of Sir Francis Walsingham in The Science of Discworld II.
EC always claimed to be " proudest of our science fiction titles ", with Weird Science and Weird Fantasy publishing stories unlike the space opera found in such titles as Fiction House's Planet Comics.
Two papers published in Science had a crucial impact: Lynn White's " The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis " ( March 1967 ) and Garrett Hardin's " The Tragedy of the Commons " ( December 1968 ).
The greatest evils which stalk our Earth are ignorance and oppression, and not Science, Technology and Industry.
" The greatest evils which stalk our Earth are ignorance and oppression, and not Science, Technology and Industry whose instruments, when adequately managed, are indispensable tools of a future shaped by Humanity, by itself and for itself, overcoming major problems like overpopulation, starvation and worldwide diseases.
* Popular Science: Science Year by Year: Discoveries and Inventions from the Last Century that Shape our Lives ( 2001 ), New York: Scholastic, p. 208-209.
Opened to the public in October 1971 Belfast became a branch of the Imperial War Museum on 1 March 1978, being acknowledged by the then Secretary of State for Education and Science, Shirley Williams, as ' a unique demonstration of an important phase of our history and technology '.
** The Science & Life Gallery also contains the exhibitions: Bugs Alive !, Marine Life: Exploring our seas and two more exhibitions soon to open in 2010.
Science fiction critic Thomas Wagner underscores the desire for meaning, or pattern recognition, using a comparison between the film clips and Cayce's search for her father after the attacks: he very randomness and ineffability of the clips flies in the face of our natural human tendency towards pattern recognition ... he subculture that surrounds " following the footage " ... an effective plot device for underscoring the novel's post-9 / 11 themes: to wit, the uncertainty of the fabric of day-to-day life people began to feel following that event … as people don't like uncertainty, don't like knowing that there's something we can't comprehend.
* Surprising Science: “ Fair ” Use of our Cells by Sarah Zielinski, February 2, 2010, SmithsonianMag. com blog
However, Einstein returned to the topic once again after the World War Two and this time he wrote E = mc < sup > 2 </ sup > in the title of his article < ref > A. Einstein ' E = mc < sup > 2 </ sup > ': the most urgent problem of our time Science illustrated, vol.
The Applied Science faculty focuses on area of study that contribute to the wellbeing and welfare of our planet and its inhabitants.
The results were published over our joint names in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Expressing the Ingress, Progress, and Egress, of the Secret Hermetick Science our of the choicest and most famous authors is an anthology of alchemical writings compiled by Arthur Dee ( 1579 – 1651 ) in 1629 while resident in Moscow as chief physician to Czar Mikhail Romanov ( r. 1613-1645 ).
In his review of Crick's book, J. J. Hopfield ( Science magazine, 4 February 1994 ) concluded that, " The book should be read by scientists for its eloquent attempt to put consciousness, which we so much equate with the essence of our humanity, into the realm of science.

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