The former implies a sense of hope, of potential achievement, of choice rather than default.
Menabrea's description of the potential achievements of Babbage's engines clearly reveals the myriad of useful tasks.
Which of the two potential achievements -- the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligent life or the development of human-matching thinking machines -- will constitute a bigger "revolution"?
In stark contrast, Mr. Steinberg shows that the applicants saw their quests for admission as culminations of past, not potential, achievements.
"We should be proud of the achievements of the past and visionary about the potential achievements of the future," the former home secretary said.
This is because research can be viewed as a non-zero sum game, wherein the potential achievements of an individual or group, such as the discovery of a cure for a disease such as HIV would surely benefit humankind far more than the individual doctor or academic.
Despite the potential achievements of amateur scientists, DIYBio raises concerns, mainly in the areas of research safety, the safety of potential products, risk to public health and environment, dual use research issues (biosecurity) and the ethical and social implications of the projects [ 4, 10].
The potential achievements of the Human Proteome Project, a collaboration investigating the complete individual protein information, were reviewed recently [ 35].
Yet the gravity of that potential achievement is only starting to sink in.
Mrs. Johnson, who grew up in Florida when segregation was legal and has lived in Islip for 38 years, said the racial aspect of her potential achievement never occurred to her until a reporter for a political journal raised the issue, shortly after she entered the campaign in June.
