Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The great discoveries are usually obvious.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.