Voltaire became famous for challenging the Cartesian French orthodoxy, traveling to England for a celebrated visit and bringing home "enlightened" ideas about philosophy, politics, and much else besides in an attempt to foment the emergence and development of a French Newtonian program.
Think: Oprah's endorsements of spiritually enlightened ideas a la Geneen Roth, or Julia Roberts' cinematic translation of "Eat Pray Love".
As a journalist he spread enlightened ideas in the Royal Audiencia, and as a hygienist he composed an important treatise about sanitary conditions in colonial Ecuador that included interesting remarks about microorganisms and the spreading of disease.
These systematic discussion and proposed directions can enlighten ideas and offer avenues in the rational design of durable and high performance Li S batteries in the near future.
Given that observation was carried out before interviewing the families, observing the context especially enabled the researcher to note a descriptive part of the happenings and enlighten ideas for the following interviews.
Although his ideas enlightened educational thought throughout the country, only one of Jefferson's dreams reached actuality in his lifetime: the University of Virginia, which opened in 1825 and was the most up-to-date institution of its sort, the first frankly secular university in America, and the closest to a modern-day conception of a state university.
He enlightened Rose, "The idea that I was going to get work took away all doubts that I could sing".
States do have a long history of pioneering new ideas, sometimes enlightened (Oregon's vote-by-mail comes to mind) and sometimes less benign (see Florida's loopy gun laws).
Usually it's the brainchild of a TV producer with a temporary period of grace at the channel, or of a production company owed a favour as their last idea "Enlightening Journeys into Sculpture" was stolen, renamed Stone-Cold Bruvss" and stuck on BBC3.
