Sentence examples for fixed sciences from inspiring English sources
When the president of Bell Laboratories, Dr. Frank B. Jewett, began his career, physics and chemistry were considered fixed sciences.
Despite popular approaches suggesting a hierarchical, or pyramidal, structure, which he associated with, among others, Comte, Ostwald and then Carnap (in the Aufbau and in his subsequent doctrine of physicalism), Neurath opposed the ideal of 'pyramidism' and a 'system-model': an axiomatic, precisely and deductively closed and complete hierarchy of conceptually pure, distinct and fixed sciences.
So I am suspicious of calls to "fix" science journalism and feel that setting "benchmarks" can exclude some great reporting.
Dr. Levine of Rockefeller suggested that it was critical for his school's graduate students and faculty to have contact with students fresh out of high school, their minds not yet fixed on science careers.
"If you're going to fix planetary science, you're going to have to figure out where it will come from," Holdren told Schiff.
Here too it must be remembered that, unlike Carnap, Neurath only rarely addressed issues in the formal logic of science but mainly concerned himself with the partly contextually fixed pragmatics of science.
However, even the harshest critics of universally fixed understanding of science, e.g. [3] who advanced the idea of epistemological anarchism, agree that science entails a disciplined way to study the natural and/or socially constructed world.
Ms. Tauscher said that while the management of the project had been "terribly bungled" she believed that those problems had now been fixed and that the science behind the laser was sound.
For example, in one of the studies, Cavallo and McCall (2008) found that students who believed in the tentative NOS were more likely to believe evolutionary theory compared to those viewing science as fixed and authoritative.
It would be expected that students with an insightful attitude toward science would believe that knowledge is not certain and unchangeable; that scientific ability is not fixed and innate, and that science is a creative and collaborative endeavor.
In this way, the methods used by science are not fixed but themselves have a history and develop progressively and sometimes in unexpected ways.
