But in Goethe's day, there was a lively science-and-religion-type dispute as to whether human beings did too.
Her tenacious detective work into family history, her crisp and lively summation of the science, are virtues that compensate – just about – for a folksy, intrusive, condescending tone.
I hear the lively conversation among computer science students -- men and women -- huddled with backpacks alongside the metro tracks at Istanbul Technical University.
The growth in interest in dinosaurs since the Dinosaur Renaissance has been accompanied by depictions made by artists working with ideas at the leading edge of dinosaur science, presenting lively dinosaurs and feathered dinosaurs as these concepts were first being considered.
I could talk about her new book more freely, more truly, if I could talk about it as what it is, using the lively vocabulary of modern science-fiction criticism, giving it the praise it deserves as a work of unusual cautionary imagination and satirical invention.
Along with lively discussions with the other science enthusiasts, Mr. Francis often found himself debating people who espoused bizarre theories that were more science fiction than science.
This, like much of the station's science output, is lively and intelligently accessible, despite too many in-jokes.
As an artist, Ms Mori has a lively and vivid relationship with science and modernity, but her pursuit of ancient ritual truth feels too much like posturing.
