Sentence examples for favour of science from inspiring English sources

It also continues a trend seen last week in the A-level results, where students were said to be trying to recession-proof themselves by shunning so-called soft subjects in favour of science, economics and maths.

Under communist rule, religion was officially viewed as a personal matter, and relatively few restrictions were placed upon it (compared with those imposed by other communist regimes), although the government made efforts to undermine religious teachings and faith in favour of science and empiricism.

The people I spoke to seemed very much in favour of science and the NHS, but had to square that with the seemingly inexplicable rejection of their medicine by the world around them.

He added: "I think there is too much focus on trying to stimulate an increasingly sterile debate on the science, given the overwhelming body of opinion that there is now in favour of the science, and perhaps if they are wanting to have an active debate they should be talking about the policy responses to that science, rather than the science itself.

Cabanis' early interest in poetry and medicine and a budding political career were eventually abandoned in favour of philosophical science.

Convinced of the need for social revolution, the Paris anarchists argued in favour of Western science against religion and superstition, called for the emancipation of women and youth, rejected the traditional family and the Confucian values on which it was based, and organized experimental work-study communities as alternatives to traditional forms of family and working life.

In a 2005 interview he commented that in doing so he had rejected "mumbo-jumbo in favour of rational science".

The analysis of the interviews and the observation studies has so far shown that the participants are in general favour of medical science and research, and that they trust scientists.

More than a record of how, say, a few Third Reichers followed their astrology charts into disaster, the book depicts a culture whose rejection of natural science in favour of faith-based "border sciences" allowed its leaders to mythologize their beliefs in racial superiority.

But even before leaving Edinburgh University with a BSc, he had lost interest in pure science, in favour of the higher and harder science of making people laugh.

The decision to take out key content over the years in favour of philosophical debate about science in society has harmed the chances of a generation, according to Richard Pike, the chief executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry.