Thomas Hoving

When I became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was stodgy, gray, run by elitists. I said, 'Hey, let's kick the thing around.' I wanted to attract young people to the museum. I said, 'Make it hospitable. I want them to come. I want them to make dates, pick up girls, pick up boys - either way; I don't care.

American Educator

Beth Ditto

I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.

American Musician

Xi Jinping

It is true that some people have some misgivings about China-U.K. cooperation. What I want to stress is that in today's world, no country can afford to pursue development with its door closed. One should open the door, warmly welcome friends, and be hospitable to them.

Chinese Politician

Harvey V. Fineberg

At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them.

Educator

Lawrence Kudlow

Trump's corporate tax reform would restore America's position as the most hospitable investment climate in the world. For a change, businesses and their cash would come back home.

American Journalist

Robert Green Ingersoll

Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.

American Lawyer

Gary Hamel

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

American Businessman

Li Keqiang

The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating.

Krista Tippett

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.

Daria Werbowy

Ukrainian Model

Remember, 'unhospitable' is the opposite, meaning not welcoming or unfriendly.

Opposite Meaning

In some cultures, being hospitable is an important tradition, where guests are treated with utmost respect.

Cultural Nuance

'Hospitable' can be used figuratively for places or situations that feel welcoming.

Beyond Humans

The word can be metaphorical, describing environments or contexts that support a certain outcome.

Metaphorical Use

It’s not just about comfort; it's about the active promotion and nurturing of growth or ideas.

Beyond Comfort

Even harmful things can be hospitable if they support negative growth, like bacteria.

Not Always Positive

 prolonged exposure to the vacuum of outer space, scientists can generate clues about the environmental limits of life and how to safeguard astronauts. In the process, tardigrades could even help us answer a critical could life survive on planets much less hospitable than our own?

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 has become the most favored candidate for the cradle of life. The seawater expelled here is highly alkaline and lacks carbon dioxide, but is rich in methane and offers more hospitable temperatures. Adjacent black smokers may have contributed the carbon dioxide necessary

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 What self-respecting night manager would ever want to work there even for an infinite salary? But over at Hilbert's Infinite Hotel, where there's never any vacancy and always room for more, the scenarios faced by the ever-diligent and maybe too hospitable night manager

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 for our form of life to exist in those other universes. So we find ourselves in a universe with the particular amount of dark energy we've measured simply because our universe has conditions hospitable to our form of life. And that would be that.

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 Any such cube anywhere in the universe could become the same kind of hub that we are, if the knowledge of how to do so were present there. So, we're not in a uniquely hospitable place. If intergalactic space is capable of creating

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 chance for our form of life to exist in those other universes so we find ourselves in a universe with a particular amount of dark energy we've measured simply because our universe has conditions hospitable

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 but one that was more hospitable than what lay outside. Today, this area offers a partial record of that secret, self-reliant world, imagined and built for survival and the preservation of freedom.

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 and radioactivity. These harsh environments don't seem hospitable for life but some organisms not only survive but thrive under such extreme conditions. The name extremophile means extreme lover.

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 that denies that we're in sync with the biorhythms, the cyclical rhythms of the universe, does not create a hospitable environment for women or for people associated with labor, which is to say,

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 above the ice and below wildlife prospers and what might seem to be in the hospitable environment but it's