By the late 1850s, Charles Darwin had already shattered the notion that human beings could control how they develop – let alone build a rational society.
Education systems exist mainly to build the rational mind, and yet the decisions that are most important in making people happy are the ones in which reason plays little or no part: the development of friendships and the choice of a spouse.
It's time to build more rational, transparent, robust, accountable systems of governance to pave the way to a more prosperous future for everyone.
The selection of potential explanatory variables was made a priori and based on our hypotheses, which build on rational and theoretical choices and previous research.
His career was built on rational solutions, but in the end he realized it all might be for naught.
To develop a suite of control elements capable of gene control at a variety of expression strengths, a library of 10 promoter-constructs were developed and built via rational design techniques by adding individual nucleotides in a step-wise manner within the −10 and −35 cis-acting regions of the tac promoter.
It is a negative feedback loop built around rational responses to incentives.
Nor are they solely built on rational benefits and offers, but also on emotional ones.
This is the first of a series of reports that probes the polarizabilities of different immobilized ligands in order to build toward a rational design of ion-selective polymer-supported reagents.
"We should put it to the House of Commons and see what the vote is, and not take the view that we can't build an economically rational thing in an environmentally sensible way just because a few people will argue about it.
