March of Science The ingredients consist of the airship Hindenburg, Bikini Atoll and Dolly, the cloned sheep.
Colin Blakemore has tried to argue that the relentless march of science leaves precious little room for religion to survive.
But in terms of the march of science, both events were of distinctly second-order magnitude, a fact almost impossible to convey at the time.
— Maria Newman The Daily Meal: The march of science continues: the Danish simultaneous 24-bottle beer opener, perfect for large, rowdy summer barbecues.
We are asked to accept the intensive model of agriculture as the heroic march of science, against primitive, low-yielding, traditional methods of production.
It makes the biggest tectonic shifts of its era — the struggle between Communism and Fascism, the irreversible march of science toward nuclear weapons, the laying of groundwork for the coming cold war — feel momentous indeed.
(Hazards of this kind are endemic to humorists who mistrust the march of science. Cf. the English wit J. B. Morton, who convulsed his readers in the nineteen-thirties by predicting the advent of an electric toothbrush).
The inexorable march of science is altering the rules of life itself, creating dilemmas that, as President Bush said of stem cell research, "forces us to confront fundamental questions about the beginnings of life and the ends of science".
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.
Last week, amid an internal investigation into scientific misconduct, the discovery was officially retracted in a note to Physical Review Letters -- a reminder that the march of science isn't always in the forward direction.
But the project has been questioned by other scholars, here and abroad, who say its authors, driven by a political urge to document Chinese culture's primacy and uniqueness, have tried to leapfrog the slow, disorderly march of science.
