I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White House, in offices of key scientists across the country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as `` Sherwood Forest ''.

This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.

The working test of `` the facts '' must always be the best available description obtainable from scholars and scientists who have applied their methods of investigation to relevant situations.

We may also recognize cases in which the poets have influenced the philosophers and even indirectly the scientists.

One cannot read the records of scientists, officials and travelers who have penetrated to the minds of the most savage races without realizing that each individual met with is a person.

And the second requirement for convincing people without their knowledge is artistic talent to prepare the words and pictures which persuade by using the principles which the scientists have discovered.

Indeed, again and again, the space merchants confirm the prediction of the humanists that the conditioners and behavioral scientists, once they have seen through human nature, will have nothing except their impulses and desires to guide them.

Top scientists have warned that an area hit by an atomic missile of massive power would be engulfed in a suffocating fire storm which would persist for a long time.

It is the business of cosmologists, the scientists who study the nature and structure of the universe, to try to solve the great cosmic mysteries by using keys that have clicked open other doors.

Anthropologists, like other researchers ( especially historians and scientists engaged in field research ), have over time assisted state policies and projects, especially colonialism.

Since the first discovery in 1884, fossils of more than thirty individuals have been recovered, providing scientists with a more detailed knowledge of Albertosaurus anatomy than is available for most other tyrannosaurids.

Although the Caiman has not been studied in-depth, scientists have learned that their mating cycles ( previously thought to be spontaneous or year-round ) are linked to the rainfall cycles and the river levels, which increases chances of survival for their offspring.

To study such phenomena, scientists have worked to obtain even lower temperatures.

Western scientists have never tested any remains of an ancient sample thus, archeological sabotage cannot be ruled out as a possibility.

Because the beaks of giant squids have been found embedded within lumps of ambergris, scientists have theorised that the substance is produced by the whale's gastrointestinal tract to ease the passage of hard, sharp objects that the whale might have eaten.

However, other geographers have had access to the same data since 2001, and a consensus has yet to emerge to support the claims of these Brazilian scientists.

She edited and published Lavoisier ’ s memoirs ( whether any English translations of those memoirs have survived is unknown as of today ) and hosted parties at which eminent scientists discussed ideas and problems related to chemistry.

In a lecture in 2001, Stephen Hawking stated " The reason most scientists don't believe in astrology is because it is not consistent with our theories that have been tested by experiment.

Since about 2005, computer scientists have attempted to develop automated methods to infer aesthetic quality of images.

Some results of Steiner's research have been investigated and supported by scientists working to further and extend scientific observation in directions suggested by an anthroposophical approach.

A common criticism has been that many social science scholars ( such as economists, sociologists, and psychologists ) in Western countries focus disproportionately on Western subjects, while anthropology focuses disproportionately on the " other "; this has changed over the last part of the twentieth century as anthropologists increasingly, also study Western subjects, particularly variation across class, region, or ethnicity within Western societies, and other social scientists increasingly take a global view of their fields.

He had also intervened on behalf of a number of foreign-born scientists including mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange, granting them exception to a mandate stripping all foreigners of possessions and freedom .< ref >

An Andrei Sakharov prize is also to be awarded by the American Physical Society every second year from 2006, " to recognize outstanding leadership and / or achievements of scientists in upholding human rights ".

Bryozoans ' evolutionary relationships to other phyla are also unclear, partly because scientists ' view of the family tree of animals is mainly influenced by better-known phyla.

This led scientists to recognise that Walcott had barely scratched the surface of information available in the Burgess Shale, and also made it clear that the organisms did not fit comfortably into modern groups.

Dark energy is also an area of intense interest for scientists, but it is not clear whether direct detection of dark energy will be possible.

Ethical issues like designed babies and human cloning have also given rise to controversies between and among scientists and bioethicists, especially in the light of past abuses with eugenics ( see reductio ad hitlerum ).

During the spring of 1798, Bonaparte assembled over 35, 000 soldiers in Mediterranean France and Italy and developed a powerful fleet at Toulon ; he also formed the Commission des Sciences et des Arts, a body of scientists and engineers intended to establish the French colony in Egypt.

There are also some scientists who have expressed grave reservations about the idea that the brain forms representations of the outside world at all: influential members of this group include psychologist J. J. Gibson and roboticist Rodney Brooks, who both argued in favor of " intelligence without representation ".

Since diamond also consists of carbon arranged in a crystalline lattice ( though of a different configuration ), scientists have nicknamed this star " Lucy " after the Beatles song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

In 1923, Danish and Dutch scientists Christian Christiansen and Hendrik Anthony Kramers, in an analysis of formation of polymers, pointed out that such a chain reaction need not start with a molecule excited by light, but could also start with two molecules colliding violently in the traditional way classically previously proposed for initiation of chemical reactions, by van't Hoff.

Trudeau has also displayed fluency in various forms of jargon, including those of real estate agents, flight attendants, computer scientists, journalists, presidential aides, and soldiers in Iraq.

Because of its magnitude, scientists formerly speculated that the gases released during the formation of the Deccan Traps played a role in the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event ( also known as the K-Pg extinction ), which included the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.

Since the 1980s, analysis of cryofixed, vitrified specimens has also become increasingly used by scientists, further confirming the validity of this technique.

However, the term could also be applied to environmental scientists.

Linnaeus and other scientists of his time also considered the great apes to be the closest relatives of humans due to morphological and anatomical similarities.

The findings were convincing for many other scientists and philosophers regarding telepathy and the claims of Rhine, but were also prominently critiqued as fraudulent, until, following Soal's death in 1975, support for them was largely abandoned.

has also argued against the ostracization of scientists whose views depart from the acknowledged mainstream of scientific opinion on climate change, stating that " heretics " have historically been an important force in driving scientific progress.

The assassination also prompts five disaffected scientists from the Organization of the Zodiac ( more commonly referred to as OZ ) to turn rogue after the completion of the mobile suit prototype Tallgeese.

This extinction of American megafauna has been explained as caused by the arrival of the ancestors of Amerindians ; though most scientists assert that climatic change also contributed.

Other commentators place the Holocene – Anthropocene boundary at the industrial revolution while also saying that " Formal adoption of this term in the near future will largely depend on its utility, particularly to earth scientists working on late Holocene successions.

Most scientists favor abrupt climate change as the catalyst for the extinction of the mega-fauna at the end of the Pleistocene, but there are many who believe increased hunting from early modern humans also played a part.

However, this article provides an interesting discussion of the limitations of the principle and also of different scientists ' views as to whether it is an accurate representation of reality or whether " Huygens ' principle actually does give the right answer but for the wrong reasons ".