French thinker Pascal wrote in The Caprice:
"Man is just a reed, the most fragile thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."
I think, therefore I am.
People, only by leaving room for thinking in their busy life, can they listen to the voices deep in the soul and find the most valuable path in life.
Recently read a lot of celebrity biographies, thought a lot, and gained a lot. Have you ever thought about a question: Is success accidental or inevitable? It is said that the overwhelming majority of accidents attribute success to the arrival of opportunities, while it is inevitable that more of them attribute success to diligent thinking, self-struggle, and timely capture of opportunities and opportunities.
In my eyes, these opposing views are correct but not complete. Because success is the organic combination and unity of accident and inevitable, and it is an inseparable whole.
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In real life, opportunities are more or less for everyone, seize the occasional phenomenon, don’t let it go, think hard, study more, master the occasion Inevitably, this is the path to success for many scientists.
Penicillin is the first antibiotic discovered by humans. It is a turning point in the history of human medicine. To this day, it is still one of the most widely used antibiotics in medical and health treatment, and it has made great contributions to human health. Contribution.
because of the invention of penicillin. Just a medicine, the life span of the entire human race has increased from 45 to 60 years. So this is the biggest invention in the history of human medicine, and even in the history of science and technology, that has benefited everyone.
1928 Alexander Fleming (Alexander Fleming, 1881~1955) discovered that penicillin is a classic example of accidental effects in microbiological research.
That was in the summer of 1928,During that time, Fleming was devoting himself to writing a retrospective paper on Staphylococcus. Out of need, he cultivated a large number of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) in the laboratory. I don’t know what happened one day in late July. The reason is that a mold spore happened to fall into the petri dish, and it happened that Fleming was not there at the time-they were on vacation in the country.
When he returned to the laboratory on September 3, he discovered that the culture: a piece of Penicillium growing in the corner. After careful observation, he found that there was no bacteria growing around. The clever Fleming realized this immediately. Mold is definitely not ordinary, so he cultivated the contaminated thing and finally found that it was Penicillium, and it released a substance that could kill many pathogenic bacteria.
Fleming named this substance: penicillin. Fleming later described this phenomenon in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology on February 13, 1929.
In the following four-year study, he further discovered that penicillin has a significant inhibitory and destructive effect on many pathogenic bacteria that can cause serious diseases, and it has a strong bactericidal effect and is extremely toxic to humans and animals. small.
It is worth mentioning that Fleming described this discovery as an accidental opportunity in his report. In fact, as early as 1911, some people had discovered Penicillium. Unfortunately, no one had conducted more in-depth research on it. I have to say that this accidental discovery actually contains an inevitable factor-diligent thinking.
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In the early nineteenth century Napoleon era, large-scale war broke out in Europe, urgently needed a lot of gunpowder. The composition of gunpowder is sulfur, charcoal powder and saltpeter . But saltpeter was very nervous at the time, so many scientists are studying new methods of making saltpeter.
At that time, there was a pharmacist named Courteva in France,Is studying the extraction of saltpeter from seaweed. He burned seaweed to ash, soaked in water, and then extracted saltpeter from the filtered solution.
One day, Kurtwa was doing an experiment intently, when suddenly a cat broke in and knocked over the sulphuric acid bottle on the table. The sulphuric acid flowed along the table into the solution soaked in seaweed ash.
At this time, a strange phenomenon appeared. The solution reacted, and a plume of purple smoke rose up, emitting a pungent smell. After the smoke condensed, it turned into salt-like purple-gray crystals and shimmered with a metallic luster.
Kurtwa was very excited, and immediately carried out laboratory analysis and found that it was a new chemical element. Later, this element was named "iodine", and its original Greek meaning was "purple."
Coincidentally, in 1906, the famous American chemist Becqueland was studying a new organic substance- phenolic resin . Rats are rampant in his laboratory, and it often disturbs him to experiment with peace of mind.
Although he has a cat, he is a lazy cat who can't catch mice. There was no way, Baekeland had to turn to the mousetrap for help. One night before going to bed, Baekeland put a fragrant cheese on the mousetrap. In the middle of the night, before the mouse came, the lazy cat ran along with the smell. It smelled, and sniffed, knocking the phenolic resin solution on the table over, and it happened to pour on the cheese.
The next day, Baekeland discovered that the paste-like cheese had become a smooth, hard substance. Grasping this accidental phenomenon, after repeated trials, Baekeland proposed the best formula. A new type of insulating material- bakelite was born.
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Thought is the root of all problems, and mental laziness will inevitably lead to slowness in our actions, so that we are too late to achieve the established goal, and this bad result will be reversed Affect our normal state of mind, and eventually we are controlled by bad emotions and unable to extricate ourselves,And this is the bane of all the problems, not enterprising and rest on its laurels.
Finally, I want to emphasize two points:
- Success is not in the future, but is accumulated from the moment you decide to do it;
Second point, all success is achieved What most people do not want to do, dare not do, and cannot do. I hope everyone can work hard for their dreams and achieve success.
In particular, we must practice diligently and seek knowledge, and we must not neglect diligent thinking. "Learning" includes "learning" in practice and "learning" in reading, and the combination of practice and knowledge depends on thinking.
We should pay attention to thinking, but more importantly, we should be good at thinking. Being good at thinking not only requires us to have the relevant knowledge of how to think, but also requires us to realize that only in the practice of thinking can we continuously improve our thinking ability.
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