Sentence examples for modest science from inspiring English sources

Not being a gentleman, I could move to a new state and acquire a truck and heavy sanders and master the modest science of penetrating slow-drying sealers, steel-wool buffer pads, and alkyd varnishes.

But that mission was mainly a technology demonstration, with modest science objectives, said Peter Theisinger, the Mars Exploration Rover project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

"It may be that they only get very limited periods of operation in the [dark] pocket, and they will have to plan for more modest science sequences".

O. Scott) 'Another Earth' (PG-13, 1 32) The director Mike Cahill and his star, the promising newcomer Brit Marling, wrote this moody, modest science-fiction film about second chances, parallel lives and a planet that may be a twin to our own.

'Another Earth' (PG-13, 1 32) The director Mike Cahill and his star, the promising newcomer Brit Marling, wrote this moody, modest science-fiction film about second chances, parallel lives and a planet that may be a twin to our own.

1.08pm BST On the question of the relatively modest £10m, science writer Ed Yong points out how specific the six prize areas are.

From modest beginnings, space science has expanded under government support to include multibillion-dollar exploratory missions in the solar system.

He observes that in the 19th century and for most of the 20th, too, scientific progress usually came from brilliant individuals formulating and testing hypotheses using data accumulated by relatively modest means.Big science has its place, of course.

His 4-year tenure was marked by a businesslike approach to legislating, support for modest increases in science spending at a time when House Republicans were focused on budget-cutting, and dogged and often highly critical oversight of Clinton administration efforts to involve Russia in building the International Space Station.

Unlike subsequent expeditions, the crew of Expedition 1 had a somewhat modest amount of science experiments to conduct, due to the priority placed on station construction.

We'd certainly be better off if everyone sampled the fabulous Edge symposium, which, like the best in science, is modest and daring all at once.