Sentence examples for a mere discovery from inspiring English sources

A mere discovery of a natural phenomenon would not qualify.

Some critics argue that biological material by definition cannot be patented, because it has always existed in nature and thus does not constitute an invention but rather a mere discovery.

And even if we set aside anything that might raise a controversy about personal identity, the mere discovery of an unexpected means of traversing our extravagant universe, with its billions of galaxies and billions of star systems within each of them, might open up for adventurous spirits anyway incredible possibilities for new and exciting experiences.

Neither of the two considered that the mere discovery of an island was sufficient to claim sovereignty over it, and often a formal act of possession was considered the proper procedure to claim rights over a territory.

Mr. Hansen, the lawyer challenging the patent, said the mere discovery and extraction of the plant should not make it eligible for patent protection.

But he wasn't satisfied with mere discovery – he argued passionately for the rights of the individual to explore and map the limits of human consciousness without government interference.

"I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again until the end"; but no mere discovery of hot-blooded love among her own possibilities deflected the author from the relentless design of "Ethan Frome" — its illustration of the crushing imprisonment that nature and society impose upon the individual life.

Indeed, following Lapan and Moschini (2000, p. 525), 'it is not the mere discovery of new knowledge that leads to economic progress: to realize private and/or social benefits it is necessary for an innovation to be adopted by firms'.

But in 1947 there was a missing component in biological thinking about the nature of the code, one which was at the heart of Watson and Crick's decisive interpretation of their discovery a mere six years later – "information".

Scientists say the discovery is much more than a mere curiosity, because the colony consists of what are known as social amoebas.

The discovery of a wetter climate a mere few thousand years ago represents "a classic surprise in paleoecology," says paleoecologist Sara Hotchkiss of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.