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本帖最后由 SadPy 于 2010-2-23 22:23 编辑
TOPIC: ISSUE118 - "In any field of endeavor-the sciences, the humanities, the social sciences, industry, etc.-it is not the attainment of a goal that matters, but rather the ideas and discoveries that are encountered on the way to the goal."
The proposition is reasonable that the ideas and discoveries encountered on the way to a goal are surprisingly meaningful. However, the speaker unnecessarily extends this assertion to all fields of endeavor, including the sciences, the humanities, the social sciences, industry, and to every attempt on these fields. In my view, those encountered achievements actually closely relate to the original goals.
The first rational reason that those encountered achievements cannot exist beyond the existence of attempts to achieve a goal is to do with the causation relationship. The goals are causes and the encountered achievements are consequences. Thus the goals play an important role at the discovery procedure of the unexpected gain. On one hand, setting a goal is the start of every endeavor. People begin their work with the pursuit of a goal. On the other hand, goals give people direction, which is valuable at the beginning of endeavor and also important at later; goals help people focus concentration on their work, preserve their passion. In conclusion, every success is indispensible to the diligent attempt to achieve a goal—no matter it is an attainment of the goal or encountered fruit on the way to the goal.
Secondly, in some fields, the importance of the attainment of a goal is unsurpassable. For example, in social science, failing to achieve the goals of a policy means a great loss of the society and people—no matter what ideas paid for with blood and sweater that politicians learned from it. When it comes to science, unexpected surprises always emerge and receive accolades in that era of reformation and individual research. However, the development of science and technology make it ever more difficult for individual wandering research. Scientific research is becoming more a system engineering with a certain goal, procedure, and a group of people rather than directionless exploration with marvels. Ideas and discoveries of equivocation and uncertainty are rapidly reducing in this field nowadays. Pursuit of a goal is the very mainstream rather than the encountered achievement.
I still admit that some byproducts on our way to a goal are valuable. For example, the invention of note paper is actually originated from a kind of products when people are trying to improve tires. It is a common office supplies in our life today. To pay attention to every little thing on the way to goals, we can attain more and more.
All in all, serendipity in every field is an important part of progress and improvement, and sometimes it will become a great discovery or invention. It is the diligent attempts to a goal that matters and brings up the best attainments. |
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