The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
If they exert it not for good they will for evil if they advance not knowledge they will perpetuate ignorance.
There's no question that as science knowledge and technology advance that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
I have experienced jealousy possessiveness verbal abuse and violence from men but I have also experienced jealousy possessiveness verbal abuse and violence from women usually when I failed to respond to their advances.
We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.
The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.
The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.
Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
To raise new questions new possibilities to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true there would be little hope of advance.