Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understand this evolution we must further understand "the invisible world of the atoms with our minds and instruments...
Americans and their leaders must understand their options, Fuller said. The reason most of them don't is "that 99 per cent don't understand science or the reliable language of science--mathematics," he added...
...troubling aspect. On the one hand, it's wonderful that many more people are becoming interested in museums and the arts; yet it raises the serious question of whether they are really interested in art or simply participating in a phenomenon. Do they really go and look at and understand what's going on in these exhibitions? Are they attracted to other collections in the museum that have been sitting there for years and the same people didn't go to see them? Is it art that the public is interested in or is it a spectator sport? I think...
...that trend continue I don't know and I wouldn't want to know. I think what the art is going to be like in the '80s belongs in the hands or the artists, and it's for us to follow their visions and attempt to understand...
...active, flaring regions of bright stars, for it now seems that their atmospheres are energized far more powerfully than our Sun. A number of unanticipated discoveries concerning rotation, magnetism, size and dynamics suggest that a completely new outlook on the physics of stars may be required to fully understand them...