Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They support each other in a strange sort of way: One goes through the same stages--you get an idea, and you use your education or your experience to test it," he notes. Both good science and good writing demand imagination, McMahon says, but "the ideas come for nothing, or as a gift." The work comes in testing the ideas: "The ideas themselves aren't worth anything, until they are proved true or false. Just as experiments or theories test scientific ideas, a fictional idea can be proved workable or useless by trying...
...series of ill-disguised emotional crusades. His first mission, of course, is to dangle accessible science provacatively before the public. A second is his virulent attack on the theory-mongers of science, the "paradoxers"--those irresponsible practitioners who propose theories without ample evidence, make lots of noise in support of them, and then fall niftily by the wayside when someone with the facts comes along. Sagan debunks them in several delightful essays, taking to task, among others, the proponents of mathematically gifted horses and human levitation...
...would support such a university not only spiritually, but I would like to have a hand in its creation," Soni says, adding, that education "is the one means" for the liberation of black South Africans...
...group has also collected 800 signatures on a petition asking for support for the boycott...
Califano would not comment on whom he might support for president in 1980 "I'll wait until we see some announced candidates. If they can play cat and mouse, so can I," he said...