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As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, not only in a material sense, but more importantly, the United States has the strength of scientific and technological talent, and managerial expertise.

As consultants, they actually delivered to us a fairly detailed scientific proposal that told us they would look for small changes in temperature and air pressure, as well as odors and vapors of different kinds, ... So, all of our equipment design was predicated on the 'what if?' reality.

A safe landing is obviously the highest priority, because without a safe landing, there is no scientific return ... But we also want the site to have the highest possible scientific return.

The bottom line is that the scientific evidence from 2005 and early 2006 is powerful and conclusive. If society wishes to avoid catastrophic disruption of our lives, the time for action is now. Individual citizens are powerful agents of change, but communities, businesses, the state and the federal government will need to do their part.

The boundaries of the plan were actually developed by a scientific team without any kind of political pressure. Some of the very best scientists who know the Southern California desert ecosystems were involved.

The Bush administration was clearly humiliated by its unwillingness to follow the scientific recommendations. Johnson found himself making a political decision over the strenuous objections of the outside experts and frustrations of inside scientists. He appeared to be torn between observing a scientific consensus and honoring his political obligations to the trucking, power-plant, and other fuel-burning industries.

The Bush Administration got it right when it claimed that the world is indeed flat despite media and scientific community criticism. John D. Sailor, a veteran seaman of some six voyages, has reported that he has been to the edge, and peered into the abyss.

Autonomous robots alone will be unable to realize those scientific goals in the foreseeable future,

Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't.

A thousand opinions by a court that a particular scientific theory is invalid will not make that scientific theory invalid. It is going to be up to the scientists who are going to continue to do research in their labs that will ultimately determine that.

That's where I don't go, ... That's not a scientific question.

that the department would hold up releasing a study that is scientific simply because its conclusion is politically inconvenient.

All a manatee needs, we have found, is a chance to get out of the way of an oncoming boat. We have scientific proof that manatees can sense a boat and attempt to move away. A fast boat doesn't give the slow moving animal an opportunity to get out of the way.

You're just guessing without a soil test. There's a more scientific way to determine what a lawn needs.

This is an exciting moment for the CIRM as these awards mark the first step in our scientific program of stem cell research--an accomplishment we have been able to achieve in less than one year as a state agency. The CIRM training program established today will be the most comprehensive training program to date in the field. It will provide a pipeline of highly trained basic and clinical investigators for the research that CIRM will fund in California.

This is a positive announcement, ... We are pleased the two countries will work together to build an advanced filtration system that will be based on the results of scientific testing that is now underway.

This is the first scientific contribution that the addictive pathways are deficient in the obese and it may explain their cravings,

This isn't a scare tactic. What this is doing is presenting some scientific data in a real-world scenario so people can understand it.

This is something I've been talking about for a long time. We've known it almost intuitively. It's been part of my regular slide show. So it's gratifying to see the scientific data supporting it.

This is the bizarre thing. This exact period I'm writing about is also a period of the most extraordinary scientific and technological achievement, from the mapping of the human genome to the creation of the internet. It seems paradoxical that there should be this proliferation of mumbo jumbo at a time of such immense change and upheaval, but that may be a partial explanation for it.

The whole history of calendar-making is that of successive attempts to reconcile the irreconcilable, and the numberless systems of intercalated months, and the like, are thus of minor scientific interest.

This genre may be appealing in this scientific age because people are interested in belief beyond the scientific way of knowing.

This document provides excellent guidelines for scientific experimentation within a framework of high ethical principles.

This is a case in which there is no scientific evidence, no fingerprints, no blood splatter, no bloody weapon -- no weapon at all -- no witness to the crime.

This involves years of scientific work. The point is to recognize the problem early and go ahead and fix it.

They've got all kinds of scientific studies, good peer-reviewed medicine, that shows how important particulate matter is to causing morbidity and mortality. I have even seen some scientific evidence that it causes asthma, not just exacerbation of it.

They (state school board members) are allowing the intelligent-design minority to bypass the scientific community. While not specifically mentioning religious concepts, it's advancing a sectarian religious view. They're treading on some constitutional grounds here.

Although the strategic rationale for combining Boston Scientific and Guidant appears compelling, we have lingering concerns.

America has the safest beef supply in the world, and there is no scientific reason why American beef should be excluded from any market in the world.

This poll shows widespread support for the idea that when biology teachers teach Darwin's theory of evolution they should present the scientific evidence that supports it as well as the evidence against it.

This piece of work gives some scientific validity to what people are doing already. Previously, people eliminated various foods from their diet and reintroduced them slowly, noting the reaction. It was a long process that was difficult for people with busy lives.

This pattern is not merely about new applications. It's about a revolution in how we create, share and refine anything that can be digitally encoded -- be it news and information, artistic forms, scientific breakthroughs, personal communications, economic transactions, and, yes, even software. This is not Web 2.0. It's World 2.0.

This panel couldn't find stem cells that match patients' DNA regarding the 2005 paper, and it believes that Hwang's team didn't secure scientific data to prove that.

This mission will greatly expand our scientific understanding of Mars, pave the way for our next robotic missions later in this decade and help us prepare for sending humans to Mars." ()

There was a time when science was respected by politicians and government officials and when the information obtained through unbiased scientific exploration was used for the better of society.

There isn't anyone, to my knowledge, who looks beyond ... the auto-theft rates. There's no scientific or analytical review of this data.

There's all sorts of unknowns at the moment on this. We're just waiting for when we get medical tests on the animals and scientific results on the facility before we can say anything meaningful about it.

This matter is grave enough to shake the very foundations of scientific research.

This law puts Massachusetts at the forefront of life science research, which holds the promise of curing many of the country's most devastating diseases. She's confident that any ethical issues raised by current research techniques will be rendered moot by the development of more scientific procedures.

This kind of give-and-take lies at the heart of scientific progress and is precisely why scientific analyses are made available in the open literature.

This kind of accusation that China is collecting scientific and military intelligence is groundless.

This justifies our investment in the field. We've long suspected that if anyone beat us to this milestone, it would be Dr. Hwang's team -- due partly to their scientific prowess, and partly to the greater availability of canine surrogates and ova in South Korea.

This justifies our investment in the field, ... We've long suspected that if anyone beat us to this milestone, it would be Dr. Hwang's team -- due partly to their scientific prowess, and partly to the greater availability of canine surrogates and ova in South Korea.

They're certainly making it harder for J&J to come back. Strategically we believe Boston Scientific with Guidant is a better match.

At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it.

At a time when Boston Scientific management should be devoting 100 percent of its efforts to the Guidant transaction, it now also must address the warning letter.

As scientific research demonstrates, llama wool's very coarseness and its range of fibers from fine to thick mean that it can be woven into clothing that's superior to down, fleece, sheep wool, and alpaca wool in criteria ranging from warmth to water resistance to usable life.

A country with such a huge economic power will no doubt lead most countries in scientific research and education.

It seems like Boston Scientific really wants this deal and will pull out all the stops to get it. It's a very rare asset. Cardiac rhythm management has $10 billion and only three companies.

It's a Site of Special Scientific Interest up there. Something to do with the butterflies and the birds up there being a bit special.

It was really interesting, ... It was scientific illustration.

It's a crystalline silicate grain. This is great; we've already got scientific results.

It is unfortunate when people prematurely draw policy implications from single studies before the scientific process has finished its job.

It is unfortunate that the letter to Science magazine received widespread media attention. The letter was a request by nine university and forest science scientists, who are familiar with the subject area and geographic area, to clarify and strengthen a paper that had obviously inadequate peer review by Science magazine before it became part of the scientific record.

It might seem paradoxical that the biggest scientific instruments of all are needed in order to probe the very smallest things in nature. The micro-world is inherently 'fuzzy' - the sharper the detail we wish to study, the higher the energy that is required and the bigger the accelerator that is needed.

It might reflect that Guidant knows that it has some troubles, and it may see a safety net here. Maybe Boston Scientific has signaled to Guidant that the situation has too many problems, and it may be pulling back.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

It reduces the prospects for recovering species, it weakens the scientific foundations for decision-making, and it takes taxpayer dollars away from conservation efforts.

It really gets on my goat that people keep quoting Dorothea Mackellar's 'My Country' as proof that there is no such thing as climate change. A poem written more than 100 years ago by a homesick 19 year old versus an ever-increasing body of refereed scientific thought... hmm, hard to know which way to jump, really.

It's a hypothesis that's not testable, and one of the important recognition factors for science and scientific ideas is the notion of testability, that you can go out and do an experiment and learn from it and change your idea. That's just not possible with a notion that's as much a belief in spirituality as intelligent design is.

It's very clear Boston Scientific is not making this acquisition for what this company can do in 2006, 2007. This is a long-term strategic acquisition for them.

It's no mystery to doctors that the over-the-counter preparations may not do much for the cough but the guidelines are stating the fact that there are very few well-done scientific studies to support their use. That's not to say that some of these products may not be helpful for some people to some degree, but those studies just aren't out there.

For decades now, the scientific and medical community have said that sexual orientation is an immutable trait, what some of us might call a gift from God.

The nuclear capability of Iranian scientists is one example of the numerous scientific movements in the country, and the Islamic republic is ready to transfer this experience and the technology and knowledge of its scientists.

It's too bad that they'll get attention for this sort of drivel when we have a robust scientific research program that the media doesn't seem to want to write much about.

It's to be prudent, that is the only explanation. When this mission was launched, it had a price tag in the millions of dollars. Now that Stardust is safely back, the cargo in many scientific corners is described as priceless in terms of the data it can provide.

It's the first movement to try to drive a wedge between students and the scientific process.

It's the best global map we have. We're hoping the scientific community will start using this as their base map.

Its supporters make only selective reference to the overwhelming scientific evidence that supports evolution.

It's like a scientific road test of the vessel, ... Tomorrow, we're going to learn significantly more.

It's a pretty scientific group, a pretty skeptical group.

It's hard to reconcile the scientific principles of freedom of exploration, testing hypotheses and evaluating evidence with the tyrannical rhetoric coming from some scientific elites who want to squelch the teaching of intelligent design alongside evolutionary theory.

It's a very scientific road test of the vehicle.

It's become a problem. We know it's a problem. Any solution that we look for, we have to make sure we don't make the cars less safe instead of more safe. That's the No. 1 thing ... We've got to make sure that whatever we do to cars that it's scientific and not shade tree. We've thought about this before. I think we'll ratchet up the research and get a lot more input, but I don't think it will happen before the Daytona 500.

It's been a long time since the prize has gone to someone like that. Esthetic literature has dominated because, I think, the modernist trend has been to frown upon scientific literature,

It's been almost completely rejected in the scientific community. Nobody believes in it.

Daring to challenge the existing theories and dreaming boldly can only lead to further progress in the scientific field and enable the next generation to face the challenges of the 21st century.

Data analysis serves as a process that underpins scientific inquiry. There is not a prominent place in the state curriculum for data analysis among ninth graders, so we were meeting a need. Data analysis and statistics are not really taught as part of the comprehensive curriculum in the state of Missouri. We wanted to give the kids a chance to work with statistics. Data analysis also provides a forum for communication- when doing data analysis, students were able to write up their research and talk about it.

Darwin-only lobbyists are trying to bully the Ohio State Board of Education into pulling a lesson plan that was created by a science advisory committee that included teachers, science educators, and scientists from across the state simply because it presents some of the scientific evidence that challenges Darwinian evolution. Students should learn more about evolution, not less, including the theory's strength and weaknesses.

Darwin and his descendants couldn't have asked for a better example of how you make scientific predictions and how you verify them in a very rigorous way.

Creationism is a theological concept but intelligent design is a scientific theory. One can be a creationist without any physical evidence. That's 180 degrees different from intelligent design.

consideration of alternative uses so that we would maintain that facility in some scientific capacity and maintain the jobs.

The new Russian proposal can be studied so that its economic, technical and scientific aspects will be clear.

Everybody has their secret blends. For a while there was one called I-Hop because of the syrup and sugar that went into it. Making blends becomes a scientific thing, kind of like hi-tech fishing.

Eventually we want to create stewards of the environment. ... We hope that introducing kids to these scientific concepts will make it more likely that they'll become scientists.

The biggest changes are the kids and the resources they have. They use the scientific method better than I've ever seen it used before.

The bacteria has also been found in pregnant women and women who have had medical abortions. There are a lot of scientific questions.

The available scientific evidence proves that wild Atlantic salmon in the United States are on the brink of extinction. The Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service disregarded the scientific evidence and violated their statutory mandate under the ESA when they accepted Maine's voluntary plan instead of federal listing.

The Australian Government has great respect for the significance of these items as part of China's scientific and cultural history, and is committed to ensuring the worlds important heritage is protected into the future,

The AIDS 2006 theme recognizes the need to accelerate scientific research while also dramatically expanding access to the knowledge and tools currently available to prevent new infections and prolong life among people living with HIV or AIDS.

That is not going to happen this century unless we get more kids interested in science. We have 39 of the 50 best scientific institutions in the world. But U.S. enrollment is down and foreign enrollment is up. We have to change that if we want to be the innovators of the future.

It's important that we complete the definitive studies and get scientific information.

It's conceivable that the IPN could go like its terrestrial counterpart, starting out as a network supporting scientific research and eventually evolving into something of commercial interest,

It is the panel's judgment that Prof. Hwang's team does not have the scientific data to prove that they (patient-specific stem cells) were made.

It is the panel's judgment that Professor Hwang's team does not have the scientific data to prove that they (patient-specific stem cells) were made.

It seemed like my professional life would take a more scientific route. I guess that plan started to become undone when, at the age of 17, I happened upon a screening of Alain Resnais' 'Hiroshima Mon Amour,' and it took my breath away.

It's disturbing, ... This is the first time to the best of my knowledge through successive Republican and Democratic administrations, that the issue of scientific integrity has reared its head.

It seemed to me that here was a way to really understand living matter and to develop a more scientific basis to many medical problems.

no longer serve as staff when scientific and clinical evidence, fully evaluated and recommended for approval by the professional staff here, has been overruled.

Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough to be illumined with the gift of faith and enkindled with the desire of forwarding a good cause. For this end it is necessary to take an active part in the various organizations and influence them from within. And since our present age is one of outstanding scientific and technical progress and excellence, one will not be able to enter these organizations and work effectively from within unless he is scientifically competent, technically capable and skilled in the practice of his own profession.