There is, appropriately enough, a biblical quality to Craig Venter's account of the genesis of his quest to create life "from scratch".
This opera, Smetana's second, was part of his quest to create a truly Czech operatic genre.
There's also the belief among Dahmer enthusiasts that he derived no pleasure from his crimes; that the murders were a means to an end, an accidental byproduct of his quest to create a companion for himself (even though his ideal companion was a zombified human incapable of independent thought or movement).
Dr. Kurtin, 64, has spent almost 20 years of his career on a quest to create a better pair of spectacles for people who suffer from presbyopia — the condition that affects almost everyone over the age of 40 as they progressively lose the ability to focus on close objects.
IBM has embarked on a quest for the holy grail of neuroscience the far-off goal of creating a computer simulation of the human brain.
An incongruous bunch of intellectuals meet in a heartland college dormitory and embark on a dangerous quest to create order out of chaos.
Arguably more so than any other Light and Space artist Mr. Wheeler has made the quest to create a sense of absence — to enable people to perceive space and light in ways they normally cannot — a primary obsession.
[C13.] Microsoft Tries to Explain.Net Two years into its quest to create a kind of Internet-enabled computing it describes as.Net, Microsoft and its chairman, Bill Gates, paused and tried to explain what it meant.
I keep hoping that our leaders will not drive out the good in their quest to create some kind of perfect world according to their own vision -- a vision often informed only by other elites like themselves, or major philanthropists, unenlightened by the real lived experience of us lesser lights who are mere practitioners of the educational arts.
Being a trained chef who's worked in many renowned NYC kitchens, Anton began a quest to create a line of soda syrups that were a modern take to the old soda fountain flavors he grew up on, and in January 2010, he launched P&H Soda Co. with full confidence that all natural sodas would make a comeback.
