Sentence examples for mere discovery from inspiring English sources

A mere discovery of a natural phenomenon would not qualify.

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.

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

"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'.

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.

He generally writes as if he were advancing a startling discovery, mere hints of which, with the benefit of hindsight, can be extracted from Spinoza and James.

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".

Mere months after they declared the discovery of gravitational waves, more than 1,000 physicists have been handed good reason to put their party hats back on and return to the champagne.

At times the routes disappear under modern interstates but these are mere interruptions in authentic journeys of discovery and adventure.

Scientific discovery is never the mere mechanical application of set procedures [ 29].