The phrase "act of discovering" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the process or action of finding out or learning something new.
Example: "The act of discovering new ideas can lead to innovative solutions in science."
Alternatives: "process of discovery" or "discovery action".
Or the translational act of discovering our own loved, liked or loathed poets.
And my job of selling photographs is kind of an intermediary between the act of discovering photography for myself and passing the pictures on to others.
At the bottom of another page, there is a "Quote of the Week" — "It's amazing what you can do when you go slower!" — attributed to me in the act of discovering this brilliant truth.
A few months ago, the Dubuque Chamber of Commerce decided to change the national image of the Littl Old Lady by the simple act of discovering her name & addr.
In "Diana and Actaeon," Actaeon is shown in the act of discovering Diana and her nymphs naked; in "The Death of Actaeon" he has almost completely turned into a stag and Diana is hunting him.
Misusing such information to attack computers or to aid others in such attacks is illegal, but there appears to be nothing illegal about the act of discovering and selling vulnerabilities.
This is a man revealing himself, touched and startled by his act of exposure, discovering and offering the old truth: every life matters.
That's what kept him working as hard as he did the act of almost discovering, of this or that being just outside his reach but present, like real possibility.
'Serendipity', or the act of accidentally discovering something fortunate, is the other side to the coin.
It believes that EMI would be vulnerable to being asset stripped and run as a catalogue business re-releasing its Beatles archive with little or no emphasis on the expensive business of discovering new acts.
An experiment is a test, trial, or tentative procedure an act or operation for the purpose of discovering something unknown or of testing a principle or supposition.
