"The Essential Goethe" includes a generous sample of his scientific writing, which reveals how much of Goethe's science was devoted to the idea of holism — the sense, more an intuition than a theory, that the universe is a living organism that develops and grows.
The final chapter of Philip Kitcher's (1993) book The Advancement of Science was devoted to the organization of cognitive labor in science, building on a journal article of the same theme (Kitcher 1990).
Science is devoted to the development of a greater understanding of reality, dealing specifically and exclusively with information.
While technology is concerned with the fabrication and use of artifacts, science is devoted to the more conceptual enterprise of understanding the environment, and it depends upon the comparatively sophisticated skills of literacy and numeracy.
The community of complexity science is devoting significant efforts to define laws, models, and theories, which, based on acquired knowledge, are able to predict future observations (e.g. success of a product).
One floor centered on the social sciences; a second floor was devoted to modern languages and literature, and included a general reference and reading room; a third floor held works on ancient languages, philosophy, education, classics, art, and religion.
One of the first network mailing lists, called SF-Lovers, was devoted to science fiction fans.
In a recent statewide assessment in California of history and social science, 40percentt of the test was devoted to "critical thinking skills" and only 10percenttoto knowledge of United States history.
An active and involved Trustee of the Museum for 28 years, Arthur was devoted to science, culture, education, and to beautifying New York for the benefit and pleasure of all.
A RECENT issue of Science, the weekly journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was devoted to research into "Ardi" or Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4m-year-old hominid species whose discovery deepens the understanding of human evolution.
Its recent expansion was devoted to building up its interactive science exhibitions, including a theater.
