issue138【1106G】gelivable小组 第3次作业

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The speaker contends that discovery and progress are made only through mistakes. While I concede in certain cases we can promote discovery and progress through other aspects, I strongly agree with this contention, for two reasons. First, it accords with our personal experiences. Secondly, history inform us that trial-and-error provides the substantial fundamental for discovery and progress, in all realms of human endeavor.

Before discussing the statement, we should limit a respect, that we cannot consider the progress which refer to the achievement of ancestors just rely on the infallible contemporary. For instance, Newton and Leibniz established calculus, and no one recognized this theory before. Although they explore the theory without mistakes, the ancestors already provide them theoretical basis. the reason why they have seen further is by standing on the shoulder of Giant's.

To begin with, the contention accords with our everyday experiences as human being from childhood through adulthood. As a infant, we successful learn how to walk after thousands of falls and though emitting strange sounds we know how to speak. The bitter taste of disappointed love makes us reconsider ourselves and recognize which kind of people is suitable as a couple. During studentship, discipline 's fails inform us what is inappropriate to pursue and clear our career goal.

This same principle also applies on a societal level. For example, how we progress in our scientific knowledge. The essence of the progress of our scientific knowledge is the trying step by step and endless mistakes. There are no theory coming out directly without reasonable check and persuasive experiment consequence, which is came out through taking wrong paths or confuse the logical relations. Consider the instance of Goldbach conjecture which puzzled mathematicians three hundred years. Up to now no complete prove is given, but the wrong attempts through trying strongly promote the development of Number Theory.Therefore, we cannot simply consider a mistake useless regardless the potential function.

The value of trial-and error is not limited to the sciences. In government and polities, progress usually comes about through distrust and challenge ----- that is, when people point out the mistake of those in power. In fact, where there is a political violence and unreason,there is a lack of the challenging those in power. Actually, the challenge makes those in power consider what is unreasonable in the regime and try to fix it.

In sum,  regardless of the extreme viewpoint, the speaker correctly asserts it is through mistakes that discovery and progress are made. Indeed, our personal experiences as a individual, as well as advances in science, government, depends on making mistakes.