Sentence examples for failed theories from inspiring English sources

In his characteristically anecdotal yet authoritative style, he presents a history of the inaccurate speculation, failed theories and unlucky space probes that have tried to fathom Mars over the years.All of which serves, of course, to heighten the enigma of our closest planetary neighbour.

French biology, for example, still pays greater respect to Lamarck than is true in English literature, and many Continental commentators seek to de-emphasize the contrasts between the presumably failed theories of Lamarck and those of Darwin, or else see some greater compatibility between a "molecularized" understanding of evolution and Lamarckianism (Gissis and Jablonka 2011; Laurent 1997).

Republicans have failed theories on how to grow the economy, but no proposals on how to invest in critical economic activities always funded by governments.

"What I won't do is return to the failed theories of the last eight years that got us into this fix in the first place, because those theories have been tested and they have failed.

Often, maybe usually, politics is what's keeping these zombies alive; or, if not exactly politics, the attempt of economists to defend their intellectual investments in failed theories.

Other events include "Science Wake: Eulogies for Failed Theories" (June 6) and "Academic Stand-Up," (June 3), which will deliver research-inspired stand-up comedy.

Let's hope Warner has seen Ayer's movie and knows it has a hit on its hands – though that was also the ultimately failed theory about Batman v Superman.

It seems safe to say that what we have here is a case in which rival theories made different predictions, the predictions of one theory proved completely wrong while those of the other were totally vindicated — but in which adherents of the failed theory, for political and ideological reasons, refuse to accept the facts.

Describing Mr. Bush's tax-cut plan, he warned a church congregation that if Americans "put our trust in that disproven, discredited, failed theory that says give it to those at the very top and ultimately it will work its way down, we tried that.

Even so, macroeconomics courses at leading U.S. and U.K. departments continued to be based on failed theory.

As one of Coutu's interviewees puts it, "More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person's level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails". Theories abound about what produces resilience, but three fundamental characteristics seem to set resilient people and companies apart from others.