In the case of the spatiotemporal universe which empirical experience is ambitious to explore, most knowledge is (to employ Bertrand Russell's useful distinction) knowledge by description, not acquaintance.
The mission, from the day "Star Trek" premiered on America's televisions on Sept. 8, 1966, was ambitious: "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before".
"Rocket Plunge to Deep End of the Planet" (March 20), about James Cameron's ambitious plan to explore the deepest part of the ocean, omits one important aspect of this epic journey.
These novels, too, being manifestly an ambitious attempt to explore the prospects of humanity at this time, raise questions, still much debated, about the intelligence and profundity of his understanding of society.
An ambitious plan to explore a vast lake trapped beneath the Antarctic ice is a step closer to becoming reality.
Environmental health researchers reached a milestone in genomics last week, completing the first phase of an ambitious project to explore how Americans vary genetically in their response to environmental toxins.
For NASA, the 1.5% cut in 2005 is a rebuke of the president's ambitious proposal to explore the moon and Mars, which was part of his requested 6% increase.
In many of these stories, inquisitive and ambitious characters seek to explore beneath the surface of life – at which point life drags them under.
At its best, it attests to the maturation of the author's voice and her willingness to push her gifts in an ambitious new direction, to explore the intimacies of family and small-town life, the peculiar geography of childhood in all its dreamlike intensity and ennui, and the perils of storytelling and trying to mythologize the past.
As someone who was very young and wide-eyed and ambitious and excited to explore it was a very stimulating town, but I don't think I was prepared for it.
In their review of cognition and error, Patel and colleagues provide us with an ambitious research agenda to explore this nexus.
