Sentence examples for explain nature from inspiring English sources

Drake, J. M. & Kramer, A. M. Mechanistic analogy: how microcosms explain nature.

He had thoroughly mastered the works of Descartes and had also discovered that the French philosopher Pierre Gassendi had revived atomism, an alternative mechanical system to explain nature.

The special creationism explanation that the universe was created all at one time in its present form doesn't explain nature nearly as well as the evolutionary explanation that the universe has had a history and that change has taken place.

Thus Democritus reduces the causes that explain nature to the fact that things happened in the past in the same way as they happen now: but he does not think fit to seek for a first principle to explain this 'always': so, while his theory is right in so far as it is applied to certain individual cases, he is wrong in making it of universal application.

"The analogy of likening engines to plants began as a fun way to explain nature's three photosynthetic pathways in my ecohydrology course", Porporato said.

This methodological dualism is famously expressed by Droysen in saying that "historical research does not want to explain; that is, derive in a form of an inferential argument, rather it wants to understand" (Droysen 1977, 403), and similarly in Dilthey's dictum that "we explain nature, but understand the life of the soul" (Dilthey 1961, vol. 5, 144).

Public service broadcasting, which has become extremely adept at explaining nature, rarely explains history well.

In an interview with the artist Ann Wilson, she explained: "Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it.

Alvin R. Tresselt, a children's book author who won praise for describing and explaining nature to the young, died on July 24 at his home in Burlington, Vt.

We know Moonbird's age, explains nature writer Phillip Hoose (who has written an eponymous book about him), because he was originally banded in 1995.

Science, the central tool we now have for explaining nature, generates knowledge based on experience, and its primary results apply most directly to experience.