Again the student of evolutionary biology will find a fascinating, if to our minds grotesque, anticipation of the theory of chance variations and the natural elimination of the unfit in Lucretius, who in turn seems to have borrowed the concept from the philosopher Empedocles.

The evolution of the Greek art seems to go parallel with the Greek philosophical conceptions, which changed from the natural-philosophy of Thales to the metaphysical theory of Pythagoras.

The purpose of the book seems to me to be fulfilled if it contributes somewhat to the diffusion of that ' Kopenhagener Geist der Quantentheorie ' Copenhagen spirit of quantum theory if I may so express myself, which has directed the entire development of modern atomic physics.

Although a " bijection " seems a more advanced concept than a number, the usual development of mathematics in terms of set theory defines functions before numbers, as they are based on much simpler sets.

He also realized the connection between matrices and determinants, and wrote " There would be many things to say about this theory of matrices which should, it seems to me, precede the theory of determinants ".

This theory is far more complex than it seems, in that the truth of a claim depends on the context in which the claim is made, unlike basic ideas in daily life where truth is absolute.

It seems plausible, then, that there is some quantum theory — which Witten dubbed M-theory — in eleven-dimensions which gives rise at low energies to eleven-dimensional supergravity, and is related to ten-dimensional string theory by dimensional reduction.

With many propagators including Democritus, Epicurus, Aristotle and their followers, this theory seems to have some contact with modern theories of what vision really is, but it remained only speculation lacking any experimental foundation.

To skeptics, such theory building seems premature, as the phenomena to be explained by the theories have yet to be demonstrated convincingly.

the theory of inductive cardinals and ordinals survives ; but it seems that the theory of infinite Dedekindian and well-ordered series largely collapses, so that irrationals, and real numbers generally, can no longer be adequately dealt with.

This theory is confirmed in the text itself when the author seems to contrast himself with Solomon " Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon ... My vinyard, my very own, is for myself " ( 8. 11-12 ) It was common practice in ancient times for an anonymous writer seeking recognition for his work to write eponymously in the name of someone more famous.

There is however no " theory of tradition ", as for most anthropologists the need to discuss what tradition is seems unnecessary, as defining tradition is both unnecessary ( everyone can be expected to know what it is ) and unimportant ( as small differences in definition would be just technical ).

One theory relates the name " tarot " to the Taro River in northern Italy, near Parma ; the game seems to have originated in northern Italy, in Milan or Bologna.

The Interference theory seems to fare best with explaining why the similarity between memory contents and the contents of concurrent processing tasks affects how much they impair each other.

This ring seems to allow a closed time loop with stable wormholes when analyzed using semiclassical gravity, although without a full theory of quantum gravity it is uncertain whether the semiclassical approach is reliable in this case.

Computations based on the theory presented in the review produce radiation parameters ( intensity and duration time versus wavelength ) that match experimental results with errors no larger than expected due to some simplifications ( e. g., assuming a uniform temperature in the entire bubble ), so it seems the phenomenon of sonoluminescence is at least roughly explained, although some details of the process remain obscure.

One theory of déjà vu attributes the feeling of having previously seen or experienced something to having dreamt about a similar situation or place, and forgetting about it until one seems to be mysteriously reminded of the situation or the place while awake.

A member of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ), Chomsky is a self-described Anarcho-Syndicalist, a position which he sees as the appropriate application of classical liberal political theory to contemporary industrial society: " Now a federated, decentralized system of free associations, incorporating economic as well as other social institutions, would be what I refer to as anarcho-syndicalism ; and it seems to me that this is the appropriate form of social organization for an advanced technological society in which human beings do not have to be forced into the position of tools, of cogs in the machine.

Referring to Gödel's incompleteness theory, he said: " If we cannot prove the consistency of arithmetic it seems a bit much to hope that God's existence is easier to deal with ," concluding that God is " ontologically necessary, but not logically necessary.

In 2008 a new class ( layered oxypnictide superconductors ), for example LaOFeAs, were discovered that do not include copper .< ref > An oxypnictide of samarium seems to have a T < sub > c </ sub > of about 43 K which is higher than predicted by BCS theory.

Bohm's formulation of de Broglie – Bohm theory in terms of a classical-looking version has the merits that the emergence of classical behavior seems to follow immediately for any situation in which the quantum potential is negligible, as noted by Bohm in 1952.

By 1907 Einstein had framed the fundamentals of the theory of gravity, but then struggled for nearly 8 years with a confounding problem of putting the theory into final form.

* 2005 – Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, " for seminal contributions to nearly every area of solid and fluid mechanics, including fracture mechanics, turbulence, stratified flows, flames, flow in porous media, and the theory and application of intermediate asymptotics.

Someone on the inside of a hollow Earth would not experience a significant outward pull and could not easily stand on the inner surface ; rather, the theory of gravity implies that a person on the inside would be nearly weightless.

* 1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.

While other young men could become knights, in theory, it was nearly impossible for them to achieve that goal, especially for those from the lowest class.

These axioms have been used nearly unchanged in a number of metamathematical investigations, including research into fundamental questions of consistency and completeness of number theory.

It is, in its purely physical application, a theory that he fully accepts ; he holds that it was taught by Pythagoras, Empedocles, and in fact, nearly all the ancient philosophers, and was only perverted to atheism by Democritus.

Developed at the end of the 19th century, set theory is now a ubiquitous part of mathematics, and can be used as a foundation from which nearly all of mathematics can be derived.

In ancient times " Many of the noblest and best of the Athenians always considered the Spartan state nearly as an ideal theory realised in practice.

This motivated the first further development of the Eulerian theory of rigid body dynamics after nearly 200 yearsto address this kind of energy and momentum dissipation.

The heliocentric theory was successfully revived nearly 1800 years later by Copernicus, after which Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton gave the theoretical explanation based on laws of physics, namely Kepler's laws for the motion of planets and Newton's laws on gravitational attraction and dynamics.

Within Homeric studies specifically, Lord's The Singer of Tales, which focused on problems and questions that arise in conjunction with applying oral-formulaic theory to problematic texts such as the Iliad, Odyssey, and even Beowulf, influenced nearly all of the articles written on Homer and oral-formulaic composition thereafter.

Section 23 also provides, in theory, a nearly universal right to French-language schooling for the children of all francophones living outside Quebec, including immigrants from French-speaking countries who settle outside Quebec, and who are Canadian citizens.

The theory states that, relative to a stationary observer, time appears to pass more slowly for faster-moving bodies: for example, a moving clock will appear to run slow ; as a clock approaches the speed of light its hands will appear to nearly stop moving.

In probability theory, Chebyshev ’ s inequality ( also spelled as Tchebysheff ’ s inequality ) guarantees that in any probability distribution ," nearly all " values are close to the mean — the precise statement being that no more than 1 / k < sup > 2 </ sup > of the distribution ’ s values can be more than k standard deviations away from the mean.

In theory, liposomes should make an ideal drug delivery system since they can isolate nearly any hydrophilic drug, can be grafted with molecules to target specific tissues and can be relatively non-toxic since the body possesses biochemical pathways for degrading lipids.

It was only with reluctance, and when his speculations were nearly complete, that he came to a conclusion on this subject in accordance with his theory.

The reliance of neutral theory on genetic drift also fails to explain the " paradox of variation ", where genetic diversity has not been found to depend strongly on the size of different populations: while this can be addressed by nearly neutral theory, it requires the increase in the diversity of neutral alleles with increasing population size to exactly cancel out the decrease in the proportion of alleles that are neutral with increasing population size.

Neither neutral theory nor nearly neutral theory predicts the observation that genetic diversity depends on the recombination rate in that part of the genome.

His theory remained influential for nearly three centuries, before being displaced by germ theory.