The use of science is dependent on the science that we produce.
Moreover, the content of the "science of man" reveals that even the very Newtonian sciences of "Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on the science of MAN; since they lie under the cognizance of men, and are judged of by their powers and faculties" (Treatise, "Introduction").
Republicans want to pull us back to the Dark Ages in a world increasingly dependent on the advances of science and technology.
The understanding of the nature of science held by faculty is key, as college biology student acceptance of biological evolution is dependent on the students' understanding of what science is and how science works (Johnson and Peeples1987).
Like the equality of its citizens, in other words, the basic liberties of Americans should not be dependent on the changing opinions of science.
Second, the content and amount of information capable of being extracted from the genome at any given time, is dependent on the state of genetic science at that time.
According to Cassirer, although Helmholtz's view was "linked deliberately to Kant," and Helmholtz was very influential in the origins of Neo-Kantianism, Helmholtz made the a priori dependent on the results of natural science, a significant departure from Kantianism (Cassirer 2005 [1918], 96).
Since there is almost no chance of turning the clock back on our destructive power, the only hope now is to control its deployment, and the chances of that are increased by moral enhancement, which itself is dependent on the continued advance of science.
"The public has never been more dependent on science, and yet the public has never been more distrustful of science," said Dr. Robert P. Crease, an associate professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, who is working on the second volume of a history of Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Technology, of course, is dependent on science, for it requires the discovery by science of certain basic patterns in nature that can be isolated and reproduced by industrial processes.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences argued in a recent report that we live in a world characterised by change, and therefore a world dependent on the humanities and social sciences.
