Such familiar figures as a messed-up clown (John Malkovich) and a hyper-rational man of science (Donald Pleasence) either suffer the torments of love or try to find the root of evil.
Gone was the age of man harnessing other men, and on the rise was the age of man harnessing the power of nature through science and industry to advance human life.
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Western men live the certainty of this new absolutism because we accept the reduction of man to the mathematical physics of science.
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Knowing about the man helps us understand the wellsprings of his science, and vice versa.
Humans may never have the ability to change into the Incredible Hulk when angry, but donning one of these may soon make the robotic gear in scenes from Alien and Iron Man seem less like science fiction fantasy and more like a new world of enhanced abilities for everyone.
Venter's Great Man act might frustrate those who like their science with a dose of modesty or circumspection.
The same thing was said about our ability to harness the science and technology to land a man safely on the surface of the moon.
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Nobody could have foreseen that almost 200 years after its birth, the United States would fulfill the science-fiction fantasies of little boys everywhere and put a man on the moon.
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It wouldn't be fair to call this the blind leading the blind, but as the Morgan Stanley man admits in some of his humbler jottings, his act "is as much art as science" and subject to errant inputs.
The man behind the script is Arnab Nandi, a PhD candidate in computer science at the University of Michigan.
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They might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but at their most basic level these medical micro-robots are man-made protein "machines" that produce movement through chemical reactions.
It is thought that Lin, who was studying engineering and computer science at Concordia University in Montreal, had been in a relationship with the man suspected of killing him.
But, with all appreciation for technical skills, let us also remember the Aristotelian notion of counterpoise, and the Jeffersonian Renaissance Man before all begin to pursue that elusive degree in computer science.
He was still a young man when his calling to the priesthood came in the late 1950s after he had gained a bachelor of science degree in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Edinburgh.
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One might think that a man who dreams of opening up space to the holidaymaking public would have had his imagination fired as a boy by science fiction novels.
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What these two books do offer is a satisfying picture of a man who believed that the sciences and the humanities were complementary, not separate, and who proved that science affects, and is affected by, all the rest of human experience.
In May he joined with Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, to support the opening of a new National Flight Academy that will teach math and science to young people through an aviation-oriented camp.
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