Sentence examples for scientific and secular from inspiring English sources

Catherinian schools were also to be utilitarian, scientific, and secular.

The statutes of 1803 and 1804 followed the pattern set by Peter I (the Great) and Catherine II (the Great) in the 18th century for utilitarian, scientific, and secular education.

First, as a scientific and secular motif, it was only an astrological and zodiacal symbol.

Harris is co-founder and the CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values.

This passionate defense of the Enlightenment ideals of scientific rationalism and secular humanism argues that human progress is a measurable fact and that the current moment is the best ever.

John Hamill, the coordinator for Atheist Ireland's anti-blasphemy campaign, said it was extremely significant that an array of international scientific experts and secular campaigners had signed the letter urging the taoiseach to change his mind over the referendum.

It is not to defend Sheldrake -- Deepak Chopra has already done that -- or attack scientific truths and secular values.

He sits on the advisory board for Project Reason, a "nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society".

Here, I would like to announce that Project Reason, the foundation that my wife and I started to spread scientific thinking and secular values, has joined Hitchens and Dawkins (both of whom sit on our advisory board) in an effort to end the "diplomatic immunity" which the Vatican claims protects the Pope from any responsibility.

The beguines were communities run by and for single women and they form part of a wonderful section on the choices and chances open to women left at home by their travelling menfolk.A central theme of this book is the re-invention of money and its role in the development of abstract, scientific and, eventually, secular thought.

Lawrence M. Krauss, a well-known cosmologist and prolific popular-science writer, apparently means to announce to the world, in this new book, that the laws of quantum mechanics have in them the makings of a thoroughly scientific and adamantly secular explanation of why there is something rather than nothing.