Sentence examples for scientific belief from inspiring English sources

Einstein himself was motivated by an experiment that disproved a 19th century scientific belief.

The common scientific belief has been that army ants originated separately on several continents over millions of years.

At least that has long been the popular and scientific belief that draws half a million tourists to see her in Berlin every year.

The finding upsets a widely held scientific belief that chimpanzees, the closest relatives to humans, can get the virus that causes simian AIDS but without harm.

"The challenge that remains," they write toward the end of their book, "is to figure out how to address the tendencies that lead to false scientific belief".

The theory is based in part on the general scientific belief that H.I.V.-1 derives from a simian virus in chimpanzees.

The best explanation of scientific beliefs often seems to entail the truth of those beliefs—Harman gives the example of a scientist's belief that a proton is in a cloud chamber which seems to be best explained, in part, by the actual presence of a proton in the chamber.

Paradigms and Barriers: How Habits of Mind Govern Scientific Beliefs.

Science has its own explanation for why people are resistant to scientific beliefs.

They ignore their supposedly scientific beliefs rather as their ancestors often ignored threats of eternal punishment.

So our current scientific beliefs are considered more accurate or better than those of the past, not just different.