“Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time." 1/2
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"But most of them miss. Most people go through their lives without being hit by even one. Some people are even more unfortunate. They get them all.” --Terry Pratchett (2/2)
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I like the word discovery ever since I read about “multiple discovery” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery …) Long story short most new things are actually discovered multiple times simultaneously at the same time around the world by different people when the conditions are just right
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Yes! I just recently learned that was very much the case for evolutionary theory. We all know Darwin but very few know the name Alfred Russel Wallace. such an interesting vein to mine . . .
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Discover and simplify it is!
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My 4th grade teacher agrees. No one invented anything, you found it.
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AWS re:discover then?
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"Explorer"
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Perhaps it happened by accident and then something occurred for a human to discover it and note the usefulness enough to do the accident on purpose. I've a similar bugbear about the word innovation, which is the delta from the last time a thing was done, occasionally planned.
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Strongly disagree. Let people have their pride
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I put it to you that pride in discovery > "pride" in "invention" :-p
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