"famous" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Their inspirational story nicely illustrates the similarities between climate change scepticism and Pascal's famous wager about the existence of God, and it goes a bit like this:
- He is also known for the famous Simon-Ehrlich wager, a bet he made with ecologist Paul R. Ehrlich.
- Julian L. Simon and Paul Ehrlich entered in a famous scientific wager in 1980, betting on a mutually agreed-upon measure of resource scarcity over the decade leading up to 1990.
- Two period illustrations depict a famous wager in which, after Bright's death, seven fully grown men proved they could easily fit inside his old waistcoat "without breaking a stitch or straining a button."
- In Pascal's case, the famous wager; for Leibniz, the invention of binary computation; and for Kepler, the intervention of angels to guide the planets.
- This bet was admitted by both parties to be a good-natured resurrection of the same spirit and tradition behind the famous Simon-Ehrlich wager which spanned the years 1980-1990.
- Faust makes the famous wager with the Devil that will allow Mephistopheles to collect his soul if Faust loses.
- Holdren was involved in the famous Simon-Ehrlich wager in 1980.
- Blaise Pascal invoked it in his famous wager (see below), which is contained in his Pensées, published in 1670.
- Mrs. Diamond's most famous philanthropic wager involved investing $25 million to create the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center.
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