Although Deutsch is, as Galchen puts it, "devoted to the idea that science can explain the world," that devotion sometimes leads him beyond the bounds of conventional science.
Nasa runs a website devoted to the idea.
"I'm very devoted to the idea of transformation," says Sontag.
Mr. Kartsotis is devoted to the idea of American manufacturing — and Detroit as its hub.
Barack Obama began his Presidency devoted to the idea of post-partisanship.
And n+1 is explicitly and without embarrassment devoted to the idea that thought can advance.
"Rick was really young, but he was devoted to the idea of rescuing the magazine," Mr. Lapham said.
As an instrumentalist, he has enormous ambition, and is devoted to the idea that the guitar can be orchestral in reach.
Much of the rest of Dr. Warner's career was devoted to the idea of translating medical knowledge into computational data that could aid the reasoning of working doctors.
Many words are devoted to the idea of Blanche and Stanley, in "A Streetcar Named Desire," as embodiments of old and new orders of civilizations.
But if Arizona's Republicans are really so devoted to the idea, they should put their own papers where their mouths are.
