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发表于 2009-8-15 21:40:12
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173. Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before; it means putting old ideas together in new ways.
As the social developing fast, we’ve got so many new ideas to improve our life standard greatly. And I strongly agree with the idea that originality means to put old ideas in new ways rather than only to think something absolutely new. In retrospect, it’s easy to find out that we human beings have been showing progress in our minds and technology continuously. Newton, one of the most important and influential scientist once said, “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.”
Mankind has never stop taking originality ever since the human civilization appeared thousands of years ago. And most innovations were just the results of gaining new insights from restudying the old materials. Usually, the innovative ideas turns out naturally only to help us make life easier. For instance, people could now enjoy tasty bread every morning baked in an electrical oven. Anyone knows that the electrical oven is really convenient. To get delicious food, the only thing you have to do is to push the “on” button and wait. Whereas the appearance of this excellent machine is not without foundation, we know that the electrical oven come from an old-fashion oven which originated from a stove. Thus, all the inventor of the electrical oven have done is to use the electrical rather than traditional fuel providing energy. And a lot of other inventions like the oven also convince us that we are just utilize the ancestors’ ideas and improve them to make life easier. If the electric, fire, and strove did not exist, the electrical oven would not appear either. So originality is not going to happen by just thinking independently, it depends on experience or theoretical principle that summarized by our ancestors.
New idea does not happen occasionally, it occurs with precondition, and the artistic creation is no exception. As is known to all, like food and water, music has nourished man for generations. And we admire those works which are outstanding, special, impressive and profound as classical. To illustrate, Beethoven, one of the most famous artist who had great enthusiasm for music, attributed his early works to the influence of Mozart and Haydn. He heard and played many music of the Mozart’s and Haydn’s when he was young. So he created new fantastic music according to the inspiration of the old ones. Of course, other innovative ideas of art such as novel, sculpture, and drawing, also come from the original ones. Because nobody could finish writing a novel without reading one. We could never have a innovative thinking unless we get enough experience and knowledge.
Certainly, some revolutionary ideas seems to be never thought before. For example, Pasteur, who invented pasteurization, used vaccine to cure disease for the first time. However, the innovative idea of utilizing the bacteria itself to kill bacteria and cure patients was not ungrounded. This idea is the result of Pasteur’s former knowledge of microorganism. So he also took the use of the old ideas.
In conclusion, originality is just the idea that we put old one together in a new way. As a result, in order to get an innovative idea, it is necessary for us to gain enough valuable knowledge and relative experience. |
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