Lars Peter Hansen

There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road.

American Economist

Peter R. Grant

The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow.

American Scientist

Urjit Patel

There will always be divergence of views on the output gap, as it is unobservable in a rigorous direct sense. There are only estimates. How can there be a strong consensus on that?

Indian Economist

Azim Premji

If there are differences of views or divergence of ideas, they can be resolved through discussion and dialogue.

Indian Businessman

Mario Monti

I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case.

Italian Public Servant

Mina Kimes

Caterpillar has become a symbol of the growing divergence in corporate America between profits and wages.

George Gaylord Simpson

Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.

J. William Fulbright

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

American Politician

Ibrahim Babangida

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Nigerian Statesman

Consider whether 'divergence' implies a neutral, positive, or negative direction of change.

Context Matters

'Divergence' often suggests a shared starting point before things become different.

Common Source

Remember that 'divergence' can refer to abstract concepts like beliefs, not just physical separation.

Not Always Physical

Use 'divergence' to indicate a gradual or subtle difference rather than a large one.

Subtlety in Change

In math, 'divergence' specifically refers to a calculation and is not used casually.

Technical Application

Mathematical 'divergence' is vital in physics for understanding fields like electromagnetism.

Link to Physics

In biology, 'divergence' is used in the context of species evolving differently over time.

Evolutionary Term

'Divergence' in biology implies a historical process, not a sudden event.

Historical Progression

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Nancy N. Chen: The...

 and then sketches out the first tree of life, which is his perception of how all the species, all living things on Earth are connected through evolutionary history -- the origin of species through natural selection and divergence from an ancestral population. Even as a scientist,

Drew Berry: Animations...

 Well, what I didn't know was, and what we found out was -- these guys, they can't even like talk to each other under those conditions. You get a divergence of Newtonian and quantum thinking at that point, you have a split in your dialog that is so deep, and so far,

Chris Bangle: Great cars...

 divergence and convergence. And I think it’s probably in the divergent mode that we most need playfulness. Perhaps in convergent mode we need to be more serious. And so being able to move between those modes is really quite important. So, it’s where there’s a

Tim Brown: Tales of...

 Not a big divergence in terms of uniform design for border guards admittedly, but in almost every other respect, it's a huge divergence. Which leads me to think that neither geography nor national character, popular explanations for this kind of thing,

Niall Ferguson: The 6...

 the answer is complicated because of the great divergence of opinions throughout the country and the independence as it were of the states and local areas of the kinds of decisions that they want to make i had said over and over again and that's the

Stopping Pandemics, An...

 where we make the best choice out of available alternatives, it encourages us to take a divergent approach, to explore new alternatives, new solutions, new ideas that have not existed before. But before we go through that process of divergence,

Tim Brown urges...

 cities that are being built there are literally closed technical systems I don't know and I may not be alive when they collapse but I think there will be a different type of space there will not be much room for that kind of divergence

Building smart cities PIPE...

 To put that into perspective, this red vertical bar here marks the divergence time of humans from chimpanzees, a mere seven million years ago. All spiders make silk at some point in their life.

Cheryl Hayashi: The...

 divergence continues for another forty years combined with social integration globally it will build a nightmare for our children we need compassion to get ourselves started and enlightened