Sentences with phrase «discovery has no practical application»

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The evolutionary principles of natural selection, variation, and recombination are the basis for genetic algorithms, an engineering technique that has many practical applications, including aerospace engineering, architecture, astrophysics, data mining, drug discovery and design, electrical engineering, finance, geophysics, materials engineering, military strategy, pattern recognition, robotics, scheduling, and systems engineering.

The discovery may also have practical applications.

That sense of wonder and that sense of discovery, it has practical application but it also nurtures what I believe is best in us.

That is why much more is spent on particle physics (which has no practical applications and hasn't made a significant discovery in decades), or string theory (which isn't even science) than on climatology or energy research.

While, as I've said many times before, the concepts in electronic discovery are straight - forward and EDD should be seen as evolutionary rather than revolutionary, the details, the tools, the practical questions, and the application of law and rules to specific facts can be confusing, complicated and challenging.

[31] If I am right that the discovery of a new use for these compounds which is capable of practical application is an «invention» within the meaning of the definition, I can find nothing in the statute which would preclude a claim for these compositions.

The appellant's discovery in this case has added to the cumulative wisdom on the subject of these compounds by a recognition of their hitherto unrecognized properties and it has established the method whereby these properties may be realized through practical application.