Sentence examples for human mastery from inspiring English sources

Human mastery over nature has been predicted for centuries — Bacon insisted on it, Blake feared it profoundly.

This discovery resulted in a drastic revision of the date for the earliest human mastery of fire.

In its strictest sense, it refers to the initial stage of human mastery of wild animals and plants.

It could thrive only in a world where people have lost contact with the natural world, where animals no longer pose a threat to us and human mastery of nature seems absolute.

In an age preoccupied with human mastery — over companies, battlefields, bureaucracies, and, most of all, oneself — Shackleton was revered for the way he had recruited and managed his men, coolly guiding them to safety.

Judging from some of the descriptions in recent books, the new natural history museum has tended to become less a temple celebrating human mastery than a spectacle that humans must gaze at as insignificant interlopers.

His ironic but very human tone, the mastery of style and the ability to put something on the screen that had an emotional and dramatic force of exceptional power was obvious.

Today we were greeted by the front page of Nature hailing a breakthrough in artificial intelligence: computers are now outperforming even the best humans at the Chinese game of Go, long been seen as the last preserve of human game-playing mastery.

Humanity's mastery, like God's omnipotence, includes the ability to redefine who or what counts as human and even to destroy itself.

The execution exhibits an exacting mastery of human anatomy.

Human beings thrive on mastery and self-development.