It aimed both at debunking scientific racist theories, by popularizing modern knowledge concerning " the race question ," and morally condemned racism as contrary to the philosophy of the Enlightenment and its assumption of equal rights for all.

In response skeptical organizations have devoted considerable amounts of time and money to debunking the claims of those who balk at scientific consensus.

Steven J. Milloy is a commentator for Fox News and runs the Web site junkscience. com, which is dedicated to " debunking " what Milloy labels " faulty scientific data and analysis.

The progress of science over these last few centuries and the gradual replacement of Biblical by scientific categories of reality have to a large extent emptied the spirit world of the entities which previously populated it.

Anaxagoras brought philosophy and the spirit of scientific inquiry from Ionia to Athens.

Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment.

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.

:" It is my conviction that intentional phenomenology has for the first time made spirit as spirit the field of systematic scientific experience, thus effecting a total transformation of the task of knowledge.

As an example, a critic of Plantinga's idea of " a mighty nonhuman spirit " causing natural evils may concede that the existence of such a being is not logically impossible but argue that due to lacking scientific evidence for its existence this is very unlikely and thus it is an unconvincing explanation for the presence of natural evils.

During these early years, Eck was considered a " modernist ", and his commentaries are inspired with much of the scientific spirit of the New Learning.

Busby, an ardent and outspoken Royalist ( he had the school observe a fast-day on the anniversary of the King's beheading ), was by all accounts trying to preserve the nascent spirit of scientific inquiry that had begun to flourish in Carolean England but which was at odds with the literal Biblical teachings of the Protectorate.

In recent times, the progress of archaeological research and the more scientific spirit of history have led audiences and artists to view anachronism as an offense or mistake.

" This has been further reduced by Botanic Gardens Conservation International to the following definition which " encompasses the spirit of a true botanic garden ": " A botanic garden is an institution holding documented collections of living plants for the purposes of scientific research, conservation, display and education.

The enormous accumulations of achievements of Theoretical Physics during the first three decades of the last century were behind Gaston Bachelard's declaration of his new scientific spirit or a new a philosophy of science ( or a fourth stage ).

U. S. Supreme Court justice Joseph Story started the spirit of change in legal education at Harvard when he advocated a more " scientific study " of the law in the 19th century.

Up to the appearance of Freud ( who was one of the agents of the bourgeoisie ), it was through the liberal bourgeois spirit that scientific sexualism was manifested.

# Religious spirit, which includes the scientific temper: The religious mind is alone, not lonely.

Throughout the remainder of the 18th century the University of Göttingen was in the top rank of German universities, with its free spirit and atmosphere of scientific exploration and research.

Other alleged discoveries, such as the construction of early Roman history out of still earlier ballads, have not been equally fortunate ; but if every positive conclusion of Niebuhr's had been refuted, his claim to be considered the first who dealt with the ancient history of Rome in a scientific spirit would remain unimpaired, and the new principles introduced by him into historical research would lose nothing of their importance.

" study of the mind ", from psykhē " breath, spirit, soul "; and ,-logia " study of ") is an academic and applied discipline involving the scientific study of human mental functions and behavior.

This immanent spirit of light bridges the scientific and spiritual conceptualizations of the universe.

The scientific method is to follow implicitly the discovered principles and rules of phonology, and not to swerve a foot's breadth from them unless plain, actual exceptions shall justify it ; to follow the genius of the language, and by cross-questioning to elicit its secrets ; to gauge each letter and estimate the value which attaches to it in each position ; and lastly to possess the true philosophic spirit which is prepared to welcome any new fact, though it may modify or upset the most cherished theory.

No woman in recent time has combined her qualities – her taste for arduous and dangerous adventure with her scientific interest and knowledge, her competence in archaeology and art, her distinguished literary gift, her sympathy for all sorts and condition of men, her political insight and appreciation of human values, her masculine vigour, hard common sense and practical efficiency – all tempered by feminine charm and a most romantic spirit .< ref > H. D. G.

Someone who accepts — as I myself do, taking it on trust — the present-day scientific account of the Universe may find it impossible to believe that a living creature, once dead, can come to life again ; but, if he did entertain this belief, he would be thinking more ' scientifically ' if he thought in the Christian terms of a psychosomatic resurrection than if he thought in the shamanistic terms of a disembodied spirit.

The purpose of the Awards program was to foster a spirit of scientific invention and innovation among students in the Asia-Pacific regions, including China, Philippines, Singapore, India and Australia.

It is precisely this that marks out a problem as being of the true scientific spirit: all knowledge is in response to a question.

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.

it must be flexible enough to allow for technological breakthroughs, scientific progress, and changes in world conditions.

There have been, indeed, many important and valuable gains from the development of our present scientific view of the world for which we may be rightly grateful.

I have also constantly engaged in scientific work and am fully aware of the value of opinions formed in science as well as in the religions in the world.

Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, education and scientific research.

While Grothendieck was at the IHÉS, opposition to the Vietnam War was heating up, and Cartier suggests that this also reinforced Grothendieck's distaste at having become a mandarin of the scientific world.

Steiner believed in the possibility of applying the clarity of scientific thinking to spiritual experience, which he saw as deriving from an objectively existing spiritual world.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, a ranking with an emphasis on bibliometric data and scientific research, ranked Caltech 6th in the world and 5th in the U. S. for 2011.

** A natural science – one that seeks to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world using empirical and scientific method.

Following an education in a strict religious and ethical environment as an altar boy at the vicarage of Jimpley, he became a rather isolated, independent and disciplined person, and acquired a knowledge and an appreciation for the scientific method in a practical world.

In 2003 and 2004, The Scientist magazine placed Dalhousie among the top five places in the world, outside the United States, for postdoctoral work and conducting scientific research.

The Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan ( HEEACT ) ranked Dalhousie 279th in the world and 12th in Canada for its 2011 scientific paper's performances.

Ethical naturalism does, however, reject the fact-value distinction: it suggests that inquiry into the natural world can increase our moral knowledge in just the same way it increases our scientific knowledge.

It is a fundamental part of the scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world rather than resting solely on a priori reasoning, intuition, or revelation.

In 1922, he published his first important scientific work in the Italian journal I Rendiconti dell ' Accademia dei Lincei entitled " On the phenomena occurring near a world line ", where he introduces for the first time the so-called " Fermi coordinates ", and proves that when close to the time line, space behaves as a euclidean one.

Among other things, Schroeder attempts to reconcile a six day creation as described in Genesis with the scientific evidence that the world is billions of years old using the idea that the perceived flow of time for a given event in an expanding universe varies with the observer ’ s perspective of that event.

But if aspects of the world are organized differently, involving inherent and intractable ambiguities, then scientific questions are often considered unresolved.

Science is a body of empirical, theoretical, and practical knowledge about the natural world, produced by researchers making use of scientific methods, which emphasize the observation, explanation, and prediction of real world phenomena by experiment.

While empirical investigations of the natural world have been described since classical antiquity ( for example, by Thales, Aristotle, and others ), and scientific methods have been employed since the Middle Ages ( for example, by Ibn al-Haytham, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī and Roger Bacon ), the dawn of modern science is generally traced back to the early modern period, during what is known as the Scientific Revolution that took place in 16th and 17th century Europe.

The scientific prizes awarded by the IMU are deemed to be the highest distinctions in the mathematical world.

" Thus irreal works such as Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics and Jorge Luis Borges ' Ficciones can be seen as an attempt to find a new allegorical language to explain our changed perceptions of the world that have been brought about by our scientific and technical culture, especially concepts such as quantum physics or the theory of relativity.

Similarly, the rapid adoption of the scientific method throughout the world was partly a side effect of the British Empire.