Discoveries aren't made by one person exploring by themselves. And discoveries aren't made overnight. People don't see the thousands of hours that go into it.
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Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.
At some point, the time will have passed when individuals are capable of major discoveries.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.
The great discoveries are usually obvious.
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
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.
In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.
Right now we have a closure rate between discovery and exploitation of four to six months. We need to be more in the realm of seven to 10 days. That is an enormous challenge.
When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.