But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.
It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa.
The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.
Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.
And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.
A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.
It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.
If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of gr...
I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.
When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.
There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.
Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.
Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.
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