With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.
Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered.
Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it.
The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.
Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.
Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.
We've become so accustomed to teaching to the tests that we've forgotten about a child's joy of discovery.
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