the nature of man quotes

... feature of climate on the southern Great Plains. The blame falls not on the elements, but on our refusal to adapt to them. The outbreaks of dust storms have closely followed the pattern of the original ... overall course of cosmic events, ordinary matter has the consolation of being the life of the universe, softening the brute forces of nature like a flower box in the city news ... two other groups of mice After 10 weeks of exposure, the mice were bred The offspring of mice that breathed unfiltered, polluted air inherited mutations twice as often from their fathers

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 16:20

... change together as his behaviour changes The evolution of the brain, of the hand, of the eyes, of the feet, the teeth, the whole human frame, made a mosaic of special ... modern work Think of the unravelling of the code of heredity in the DNA spiral; or the work going forward on the special faculties of the human brain Think of the philosophic ... Bakhtyar The legend of their own origin that they tell of him begins, And the father of our people, the hill -man, Bakhtyar, came out of the fastness of the southern mountains in

Ngày tải lên: 08/06/2014, 09:01

... to trace the steps of his theoretical construction as an attempt to solve these problems and answer these questions (John Passmore, “The Idea of a History of Philosophy,” History and Theory [1964–65]: ... them, even if the reasons are similar For the questions to be the same, must the (implicit) range of possible answers also be the same, or at least largely overlap? The question “Why this?” often ... possibility of the same “that” but in the face of different “thises” that seem to exclude it, are they asking the same question—are they even then talking about the same “this”? When two theorists

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:50

... if the latter is the case, it is the further problem of determining their precise nature and of formulating it in a definition The modern species problem has both purely theoretical ... with the former, the species problem can be seen as the central problem of the Modern Synthesis Begun in the 1920s with the marriage of Darwinian natural... but denied that the ... audience had a theory-laden definition of species. ” Beatty’s theory has enjoyed the status of being the received view ever since The present book, on the other hand, is the first major-length

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:55

... built up the body of knowledge known as the biological theory of the origin and evolution of life There is no currently acceptable alternative scientific theory to explain the phenomena The various ... use to inform themselves, their students, parents, and others about evolution and the role of science in human affairs One source of resistance to the teaching of evolution is the belief that ... technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 05:20

... built up the body of knowledge known as the biological theory of the origin and evolution of life There is no currently acceptable alternative scientific theory to explain the phenomena The various ... use to inform themselves, their students, parents, and others about evolution and the role of science in human affairs One source of resistance to the teaching of evolution is the belief that ... technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 18:20

... the same tool, together with many other combined profiled features All of these operations make significant demands on the adaptability of the cutting insert’s geometry to efficiently break the ... alleviated by either increasing the dynamic stiffness of the system, or by increasing the damping NB  Dynamic stiffness can be defined as the ratio of the amplitude of the force to the vibrational ... Technology ‘Machines are the produce of the mind of Man; and their existence distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.’ WILLIAM COBBETT (1762–1835) [Letter to the Luddites of Nottingham] 34 Chapter

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 23:20

... muscle-bound, version of the self-confidence about scientific and technical progress, the expansion of production, the growing satisfaction of human needs, the mastery of nature (including human nature), and ... change what it means to be human They may well threaten human survival In the words of software engineer Bill Joy (2000, 242), “we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil.” We are ... served to anesthetize our higher sensibilities and drastically deflect human nature or eliminate humans altogether Indeed, the latter is the stated goal of all of those intrepid pioneers in the brave

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 14:20

... year of each other, the views of the founders of. .. elections is a start The next step is to rein in the power of corporations by insisting that they abide by the terms of their ... earth or to the legitimacy of human wants. On the face of it, the case is absurd. Most physical laws define the limits of what it is possible to do. And all of the authentic moral teachings of 3,000 ... pain, as they say, and did not seem to notice the problem, nor did the dozen or so men, simi- larly anesthetized, standing around the pickup trucks at the edge of the field. Believing the lack of twine

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 14:20

... time. Endorsed by a new president of the college, the project moved forward in the fall of 1995. Two graduates from the class of 1993 helped coordinate the design of the project and engaged students, ... materials audit of the building, includ- ing an estimate of the amount of carbon dioxide released by the con- struction, along with a menu of possibilities to offset these costs. The groundbreaking ... describe it as their legacy to the college. Because of their work on the project, many of them learned about ecological de- sign and how to solve real problems by working with some of the best practitioners

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 14:20

... happened? The emergence of the consumer society was neither inevitable nor accidental Rather, it resulted from the convergence of a body of ideas that the earth is ours for the taking, the rise of modern ... that not tell the truth about THE ECOLOGY OF GIVING AND CONSUMING 175 the full costs of what we consume, ignorance about the hazardous content of much of what we consume, the breakdown of community, ... that they can, for themselves, for others of their generation and for the succeeding generations file a class suit based on the concept of intergenerational responsibility insofar as the right

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 14:20

... perplexing The older of these has to with the diversity of life: Why are there so many different kinds of plants and animals? The more we explore the world, the more impressed we are with the multiplicity ... communities also profoundly affect weather and the movement of water among the oceans, atmosphere, and land Much of the rainfall in the forests of the western Amazon basin consists of water that has ... use to inform themselves, their students, parents, and others about evolution and the role of science in human affairs One source of resistance to the teaching of evolution is the belief that

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

... been the abandonment of one notion about stability after another: that the earth was the center of the universe, that the world’s living things are unchangeable, that the continents of the earth ... another occupied the mid-regions of branches and ate from different parts of the foliage; and the third fed on insects occupying the finest needles near the periphery of the tree Although the ... and the Nature of Science Evolution and Everyday Life Scientists examining the head of Chasmosaurus mariscalensis hone their understanding of nature by comparing it against observations of the

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

... and the Nature of Science obtain the exact sequence of all of the DNA nucleotides in chromosomes The Human Genome Project, for example, will produce when completed the entire sequence of the ... They soon realize that the number of ribs is related to the size of the fossils, so the groups focus on measuring the lengths and widths of the fossils They enter the data on the two different populations ... understanding of: • Science as a human endeavor • Nature of science • History of science The guidance accompanying this standard offers the following discussion of these issues: Nature of Science

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

... standard relates the nature of science explicitly to many of the problems that arise in the teaching of evolution Nature of Scientific Knowledge Science distinguishes itself from other ways of Copyright ... years The evolution of life caused dramatic changes in the composition of the earth’s atmosphere, which did not originally contain oxygen The Origin and Evolution of the Universe The origin of the ... hydrogen to form helium These and other processes in stars have led to the formation of all the other elements The standard for the history and nature of science elaborates on the knowledge established

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

... on the second and third stages in this brief summary of the development of biological theories Chapters and of this document provide further discussion of these points Review the “History and Nature ... experiment, and the use of technology in scientific inquiry The problem is the same as the first cube: What is on the bottom of the cube? Divide the class into groups of three and instruct them to make ... name on the other • Names on opposite sides begin with the same letters • The number in the upper-right corner of each side corresponds to the number of letters in the name on that side • The number

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

... incapable of moving their body, since they could only have had four The disuse of these parts thus became permanent in the various races of these animals, and resulted in the complete disappearance of ... by the effects of external conditions, or of habit, or of the volition of the plant itself The author of the ‘Vestiges of Creation’ would, I presume, say that, after a certain unknown number of ... unite the digits of ducks, geese, etc as we actually find them It is interesting to observe the result of habit in the peculiar shape and size of the giraffe; this animal, the largest of the mammals,

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

... to the Dada movement in the early 20 th Century. The second group of essays deal with character of the network form of organization, often referring to the concepts of the space of flows (Manuel ... made audible the resonances between the blast of Dada at the end of WWI in Zurich and Berlin, the gust of the Situationists on the Rive Gauche in Paris in the 1960s, and the explosion of Punk Rock ... to the environment, they are themselves subject to the dynamics of the environment. These dynamics, which are produced by the interactions of the nodes and shaped by the media that channel the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:20