A credulousness, a distaste for documentation, an uncritical reliance on contemporary accounts, and a proneness to assume a theory as true before adequate proof was provided were all evidences of his failure to comprehend the use of the scientific method or to evaluate the responsibilities of the historian to his reading public.

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.

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.

Scholars made numbered sets of as many things as possible in Nature, or assigned arbitrary numbers to individual things, in a fashion that seems to the modern scientific mind as downright nonsensical, and philosophical ideas based upon all this tended to stifle speculative thought in China for many centuries.

At the same time, anthropologists urge, as part of their quest for scientific objectivity, cultural relativism, which has an influence on all the sub-fields of anthropology.

It prohibits all activities relating to mineral resources except scientific.

Brito Figueroa carried his conception of the field to all levels of university study, emphasizing a systematic and scientific approach to history and placing it squarely in the social sciences.

Two aspects of this attitude deserve to be mentioned: 1 ) he did not only study science from books, as other academics did in his day, but actually observed and experimented with nature ( the rumours starting by those who did not understand this are probably at the source of Albert's supposed connections with alchemy and witchcraft ), 2 ) he took from Aristotle the view that scientific method had to be appropriate to the objects of the scientific discipline at hand ( in discussions with Roger Bacon, who, like many 20th century academics, thought that all science should be based on mathematics ).

Its aim was to enable people to write all the African languages for practical and scientific purposes without diacritics.

The Trust was funded by a gift of $ 10 million ( a then unprecedented sum: at the time, total government assistance to all four Scottish universities was about £ 50, 000 a year ) and its aim was to improve and extend the opportunities for scientific research in the Scottish universities and to enable the deserving and qualified youth of Scotland to attend a university.

Walcott, led by scientific opinion at the time, attempted to categorise all fossils into living taxa, and as a result, the fossils were regarded as little more than curiosities at the time.

When writing the scientific name of an organism, it is proper to capitalize the first letter in the genus and put all of the specific epithet in lowercase.

The dsDNA tailed phages, or Caudovirales, account for 95 % of all the phages reported in the scientific literature, and possibly make up the majority of phages on the planet.

A proposal by the U. S. to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission ( UNAEC ) to a ) extend between all nations the exchange of basic scientific information for peaceful ends ; b ) implement control of atomic energy to the extent necessary to ensure its use only for peaceful purposes ; c ) eliminate from national armaments atomic weapons and all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction ; and d ) establish effective safeguards by way of inspection and other means to protect complying States against the hazards of violations and evasions.

On November 29, 1921, the trustees declared it to be the express policy of the Institute to pursue scientific research of the greatest importance and at the same time " to continue to conduct thorough courses in engineering and pure science, basing the work of these courses on exceptionally strong instruction in the fundamental sciences of mathematics, physics, and chemistry ; broadening and enriching the curriculum by a liberal amount of instruction in such subjects as English, history, and economics ; and vitalizing all the work of the Institute by the infusion in generous measure of the spirit of research.

The census will cover all Grama Niladhari ( GN ) divisions of the country. The first scientific census in Sri Lanka was conducted on 27 March 1871.

A review of all randomized controlled trials in the scientific literature by the Cochrane Collaboration published in JAMA in 2007 found that β-carotene increased mortality by something between 1 and 8 % ( Relative Risk 1. 05, 95 % confidence interval 1. 01-1. 08 ).

Consilience is important across all of science, including the social sciences, and is often used as an argument for scientific realism by philosophers of science.

The concept that all the different areas of research are studying one real, existing universe is an apparent explanation of why scientific knowledge determined in one field of inquiry has often helped in understanding other fields.

Critics of Dianetics are skeptical of this study, both because of the bias of the source and because the researchers appear to ascribe all physical benefits to Dianetics without considering possible outside factors ; in other words, the report lacks any scientific controls.

She may grow up learning all about the scientific facts of colors, but has no way of experiences colors other than black or white.

" The functions of a diplomatic mission consist, inter alia, in representing the sending State in the receiving State ; protecting in the receiving State the interests of the sending State and of its nationals, within the limits permitted by international law ; negotiating with the Government of the receiving State ; ascertaining by all lawful means conditions and developments in the receiving State, and reporting thereon to the Government of the sending State ; promoting friendly relations between the sending State and the receiving State, and developing their economic, cultural and scientific relations ".

In both the earliest materials and Geoffrey he is a great and ferocious warrior, who laughs as he personally slaughters witches and giants and takes a leading role in all military campaigns, whereas in the continental romances he becomes the roi fainéant, the " do-nothing king ", whose " inactivity and acquiescence constituted a central flaw in his otherwise ideal society ".

In the romances Arthur, like all medieval monarchs, moves round his kingdom.

In 1664 he composed his prose Dialogue sur les héros de roman, a satire on the elaborate romances of the time, which may be said to have once for all abolished the lucubrations of La Calprenède, Mlle de Scudéry and their fellows.

Of his later writings the most important are the admirable satire on German provinciality — the most attractive of all his prose writings — Die Abderiten, eine sehr wahrscheinliche Geschichte ( A very probable history of the Abderites, 1774 ), and the charming poetic romances, Das Wintermärchen ( 1776 ), Das Sommermärchen ( 1777 ), Geron der Adelige ( 1777 ), Pervonte oder die Wünsche ( 1778 ), a series culminating with Wieland's poetic masterpiece, the romantic epic of Oberon ( 1780 ).

The two parts of this play, like all those by Castro, have the genuine ring of the old romances ; and, from their intense nationality, no less than for their primitive poetry and flowing versification, were among the most popular pieces of their day.

Adulterous office romances are widely considered to be unhelpful to business and work relationships, but while superior-subordinate relationships are banned in 90 % of companies with written policies regarding office romance, companies cannot ban adultery, as, in all but a handful of states, such regulations would run afoul of laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of marital status.

Except for an exemplum in Gesta Romanorum, all such tales are highly developed romances, such as Sir Isumbras.

Like nearly all popular romances of chivalry of the period, the French chanson de geste was adapted into a prose romance by the end of the 15th century ; several versions from the 16th century are extant ; the oldest prose version dates from 1489 ( published in Lyon by Jacques Maillet ).

The text of Tristan is 19, 548 lines long, and is written, like all courtly romances, in rhyming couplets.

The comedic twist is that his well-intentioned efforts nearly derail all the romances.

It was based on a short story she wrote for a teenage magazine, as were the subsequent romances ( all titled with female names ).

Among his friends, Paul has a reputation as a ladies ' man, but he's not at all known for being involved with long-term relationships ; most of Paul's romances last only a few weeks, and he's slept with nearly every girl in town.

Overwhelmingly, these were linked in some way, perhaps only in an opening frame story, with three thematic cycles of tales: these were assembled in imagination at a late date as the " Matter of Rome " ( actually centered on the life and deeds of Alexander the Great conflated with the Trojan War ), the " Matter of France " ( Charlemagne and Roland, his principal paladin ) and the " Matter of Britain " ( the lives and deeds of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, within which was incorporated the quest for the Holy Grail ); medieval authors explicitly described these as comprising all romances.

Early persecuted heroines were often driven from their husbands ' homes by the persecutations of their mothers-in-law, whose motives are seldom delineated, and whose accusations are of the heroines ' having borne monstrous children, or committed infanticide, or practicing witchcraft — all of which appear in such fairy tales as The Girl Without Hands and many others ; but, as time progresses, a new persecutor appeared: a courtier who was rejected by the woman or whose ambition requires her removal, and who accuses her of adultery or high treason, motifs not duplicated in fairy tales, and while he never eliminates the mother-in-law, many romances such as Valentine and Orson have later variants that change from the mother-in-law to the courtier, whereas a more recent version never goes back.

The difficulty in assigning a more precise indication of the region of England that Thomas Chestre may have hailed from lies in the readiness of all three works to borrow lines and phrases directly from other Middle English romances.

Traditionally the text is said to have been based on the Acts of John and the Acts of Peter, and even to have had the same author, the " Leucius Charinus " who is credited with all the 2nd-century romances.

Nearly all the leading classical, early Christian and medieval writers figure in his pages, and he was acquainted with the notable chronicles and romances of Europe and had studied the best Italian and Spanish authors.

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare uses this flower as a plot device to introduce the comical disturbance and chaos of love, but also to highlight the irrationality of romantic love and eventually to restore all romances that are present in the play.

Romance at first dealt with traditional themes, above all three thematic cycles of tales, assembled in imagination at a late date as the Matter of Rome ( actually centered on the life and deeds of Alexander the Great ), the Matter of France ( Charlemagne and Roland, his principal paladin ) and the Matter of Britain ( the lives and deeds of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, within which was incorporated the quest for the Holy Grail );, although a number of " non-cyclical " romances also achieved a great deal of popularity.

In all, his publications number about five hundred and sixty, but he is best known for his romances.

" In 2009, Digital Spy editor Kris Green praised Sue Cleaver's part in the Julie / Paula / Colin reveal when he stated ; ' The outstanding performances from Katy Cavanagh ( Julie ) and Sharon Duce ( Paula ) mixed with Street legend Barbara Knox ( Rita ) and the still criminally underused Sue Cleaver ( Eileen ) make for compelling viewing ' Sarah Ellis of Inside Soap opined that " poor " Eileen should join a convent because all of her romances end badly.

Eight medieval versions of the Man Tested By Fate are known ; except for an exemplum in Gesta Romanorum and the legend of Saint Eustace, all such tales are highly developed romances, such as Sir Isumbras.

Ywain appears in all the cyclical accounts such as the Vulgate Cycle, the Post-Vulgate Cycle, and Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur as well as in numerous independent romances.