In this period, many religious radicals claimed that the Church, along with the rest of the material world, was evil.
The perennial philosophy expresses our innate sense that there is more to human beings and to the material world than meets the eye.
Andraka, born in 1997, is a science prodigy who has been engaged in inquiry with the material world since he was three.
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This tension, between the force of the material world and the will of the imagination, lies at the centre of this book.
It's this vivid blurring of the real and the imaginary, the material world and the spiritual, that's at the heart of Cameron's movie.
For Crawford, the failure to appreciate skilled manual labor is a symptom of something even worse: a narcissistic refusal to grapple with the material world.
Plato believed that the first four corresponded to the elements of which the Greeks thought the material world was composed: fire, air, water and earth.
What you do online has real consequences in the material world.
Physiome's virtual heart allows drug companies to test the effects of their compounds electronically before they try them on real people and even to do experiments that would be unacceptable in the material world.
My last conversation with Adrian Bejan ended on the notion that if design in nature is a universal principle of the material world, then freedom is the key variable that determines how efficiently designs can evolve over time.
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In other words, he was a human being, this Beatle and ex-Beatle and musician and racing enthusiast. (You didn't know about the auto racing?) As Martin Scorsese's award-winning documentary on Harrison, "George Harrison: Living in the Material World, " revealed, he wasn't easily pigeonholed -- and he liked nothing more than to take the piss out of all the cliches.
We have one life in the solid material world that is most perfectly measured by science.
The Neanderthals who buried their companions with such care seem to have imagined that the visible, material world was not the only reality.
Tied up in port sit two massive iron ore transporters carrying the raw material for the world's car making industry.
In Africa, success means making the best of what you have and not necessarily having the best material things in the world.
We actually got a Guinness Book of World Records for developing this lightest solid material in the world.
Yet, in recent years, marketers started showing up in ever increasing numbers, seeking to hone their creative skills by viewing the best creative material from all over the world, attending seminars, and just generally rubbing elbows with top notch creative talent.
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Thanks to the technology revolution, we know more about silicon, particularly when it comes to manufacturing products in high volume, than any other material in the world.
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Some greens worry that the energy used to send a boatload of material for recycling across the world is not justified by savings at the other end.
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Mr Sanderson explained that with much of public life having migrated to the online world, material that is now published physically gives only a part of the story and debate within modern Britain.
Both the enormous material contribution that globalisation has brought to the world and the reservations that many people feel about it are well described by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, two senior journalists at The Economist.
Their 70, 000-gene chromosomes have been manipulated to include a gene from the orb weaver, a palm-size spider that spins the world's toughest natural material.
One of the reasons the Nobel physics committee, and now much of the world, is fascinated by the material known as graphene is on account of its possible role as the successor to silicon in new generations of electronic devices.
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However demand for the material continues to strengthen around the world, making it a still very coveted commodity.
"Shipwrecks are always under threat all over the world by people collecting material from the site and the situation in Kenya is not unique, " he says.
The material belonged to some of the world's leading climate scientists and caused them difficulty just before the major United Nations Copenhagen summit on climate change.
The announcement that Bowie was releasing new material came as a surprise to many in the music world, and has had Bowie aficionados picking over the fiercely private star's back catalogue, comparing his early work with his latest release.
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