They measured six components of wisdom in study participants — general knowledge of life, emotional management, empathy or compassion, insight, acceptance of divergent values, and decisiveness — and the more these traits are cultivated, it's possible that people will feel more fulfilled and less isolated.
None of the divergent values that atheists have from time to time promoted has any essential connection with atheism, or with science.
When you focus on uncertainty, you are offered a chance to consider more than just "oooh, but what if … " but spaces of incomplete evidence, divergent values or scientific disagreement.
Surprisingly, given the generally seamless appearance of Oprah's manifold enterprises, in which a variety of pursuits and, often, divergent values (consumerism and altruism) are fused in the melting warmth of her generosity, "Oprah's Big Give" stands out as a weird, misbegotten creature that perhaps shouldn't have been taken out in public.
But consensus is harder to achieve when members of a group have divergent values and ideologies.
These quantitative techniques mainly vary in the properties evaluated, thus yielding divergent values of crystallinity for a given sample.
That means that the auditor could accept wildly divergent values of the same asset in differing audits.
If a group of experts returns with widely divergent values, you know that "fair" is ambiguous and, therefore, that using the challenge strategy will be risky.
In bright contrast, splenocytes of HS mice showed remarkably divergent values in their Bax and Bcl-2 protein expression levels at t = 0 hours, t = 24 hours, and t = 72 hours after hemorrhage.
Surveying the post-cold-war landscape, Mr. Huntington described radically different civilizations with radically divergent values — most specifically, those of the secular West and of the Islamic world.
As a result, I hardly expect such visuals to shift many views, particularly given that responses to the science pointing to substantial, enduring greenhouse warming are shaped far more by divergent values, and feelings of risk, than the data.
