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ISSUE 87 In any field of inquiry, the beginner is more likely than the expert to make important discoveries. From early rudimentary discoveries to today’s sophisticated machines, human history abounds with many discoveries that make great contribution to the social development. Many of the great discoveries are made by people who are innovice in certain fields, because they are more passionate and curious than experts, and they do not afraid of making mistakes. Howver, the contribution of experts cannot be ignored since they possess more knowledge and experience than beginners.
Full of enthusiasm, curiosity and passion, the beginners in any fields always show great interest in their research and work. For experts, some phenomena may be too common to pay attention to, but for beginners, everything is new, and everything deserves their careful examination. Thus from the common things that experts take for granted, the beginners make great breakthroughs. For example, 一个例子,我实在想不到,5555~~~
In addition, unlike famous experts, the beginners are free of public attention and they do not worry about lossing reputation or certain position since few people know them and few people ever place high expectation on the green hands. Therefore, the beginners usually have little burden to try new approches and propose innovative ideas and are not afraid of mistakes or even failures. On the contrary, the experts, being in the position of authority, may be good at following the existed theories, maintaing or slightestly modifying approaches which have been long around but they are reluctant to take risk in trying new method ans proposing original ideas, which are necessary elements in any successful discovery. An activity that generates a hit may also produce a miss, and few discoveries are not the product of trial and error process. The cost of being orignal is making mistakes. As the founder of IBM, Thomas J Waston once said, the way to succeed is to double your failure rate. Beginners are more likely than experts to run the risk in making mistakes and experience failures.
Apart from passion and new ideas, any discovery needs the support of broad knowledge and rich experience, which are the very characters that experts possess. The disadvantages of experts discussed above is a somewhat double-edaged sword. The knowledge and experience that possessed by experts may sometimes restrict their imagination and reduce their curiosity about common things, but it should be noted that the experience accumulated from the time and practice, as well as the specific knowledge in certain fields are the foundation upon which to establish a new discovery. Take the discovery of periodic table of elements for example, while the passion, curiosity and courage drive many chemists to perform the classification of elements, it is not until Mendeleev, did the first complete and precise periodic table come into being. The knowledge and experience assimilated from predecessors contribute to the ultimate success of Mendeleev, whose discovery become new knowledge and experience that guide later passionate and creativite generations to make more discoveries. Besides, in modern society, the research of experts are more likely than beginners to attract public attention and win government’s political and financial support, which will lead to the reduction and removal of barriers that lie on the way to new discoveries. For example, when desinged to discover a new medicine to cure cancer, it is those medical experts, rather than green hands in hostial that stand a higher chance to win public trust and receive government’s fund to do the reserch. Thus the exteral environment may be more benefical for experts than beginners.
In conclusion, the important discoveries in history can be made both by beginners and experts. Both of them have merits and the cooperation of them can be a better way to create new discoveries. |
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