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the moment ignorance becomes the most exciting thing you've ever lost.
means The act of finding or learning something that was previously unknown, whether a place, a fact, or a truth.
from From the Old French 'descovrir,' built from 'des-' (undo, reverse) and 'covrir' (to cover) — literally 'to uncover.' The Latin source is 'cooperire,' to cover completely. So at its root, discovery is just the taking-off of a lid: pulling the cloth away from whatever was hidden underneath. The 'finding new lands' sense bloomed in English in the 1500s, the great age of ships nosing toward unmapped coasts.
- penicillin
- found because Fleming forgot to clean his dishes
- X-rays
- named X because Röntgen had no clue what they were
- slow burn
- most breakthroughs are years of boring before the eureka
- accidents rule
- microwaves, Velcro, Post-its all born from mistakes
discovery space shuttle — nasa orbiter that flew 39 missions from 1984-2011, discovering countless satellite deployments and hubble repairs
discovery channel — cable network launched 1985 that popularized documentary programming about nature, science, and exploration