Columbus's practice and statement vividly tell us that the most important thing in science is pioneering spirit.
Indeed, it is too easy to lay an egg like this, but if you dare not break one end, it will be difficult to lay an egg, because this is the first.
Initiative is the locomotive of social progress. The first person to lift a stone axe and pounce on a beast, the first person to make gunpowder, the first person to bite off a crab claw, the first person to sail around the world, the first person to land on the moon ... every "first" has brought mankind into a new era. It is this spirit of "being the first" that promotes the history of human civilization and inspires people to rush to tomorrow. The success of the Italian navigator Columbus also lies in his firm goal, daring to explore and taking the initiative to attack. He accepted the advanced earth circle theory and led three ships, including the Santa Maria. After many crises, he finally discovered the new continent of America and landed on Watling Island.
From ancient times to the present, whether it is the prosperity of a country, the prosperity of a nation, or the success of a personal career, it is related to the courage to take the initiative. During the Warring States period, King Wuling of Zhao dared to give the order of "riding and shooting angrily" and boldly declared war on the most stubborn traditional habits and conservative ideas, making them take off their loose clothes and throw away their heavy chariots, thus making Zhao rich. What is the basis for this? It's initiative. More than two thousand years ago, Aristotle, a great philosopher, mistakenly thought that heavy objects always fall faster than light objects, which imprisoned the world for more than two thousand years. However, Galileo, a great scientist, was not afraid of authority and did not follow blindly. Without teaching, he finally discovered the theory that "if a light object is not resisted, it will fall as fast". What is this based on? It's initiative! The initiative makes scientists fruitful, writers immortal, ordinary labor great achievements, and people with lofty ideals become pillars of the country. Today, how we need to carry forward this initiative!
But for a long time, some people are rigid, stubborn and conservative, and dare not be the "first" or open a "new road". Old ideas often bind people's hands and feet and suppress the display of many people's intelligence. In the past, our economic system was like a heavy machine, and many places were rusted and stuck. Looking around the world, the wave of new technological revolution is rolling in and unstoppable, and the center of gravity of the world economy is also moving eastward. Opportunity! It's a golden opportunity, and we should take advantage of it to meet the challenge. Countless people with lofty ideals took action: Bu Xinsheng took the lead in playing the magnetic "big pot rice"; Mao Xuecong boldly broke through the network of relationships, and Shenzhen's system reform achieved great results; Liu Daoyu, president of Wuhan University, attached great importance to educational reform and put forward a new viewpoint of cultivating innovative and compound aesthetic talents ... They felt uneasy about the backward situation of the motherland, found a new way and did something that no one had done before. This spirit is the most precious pioneering spirit in today's era.
Facing the era of rapid development, what matters is not what we have done, but what we have not done. Countless unknown fields are waiting for us in the vast world. We should carry forward Columbus' pioneering spirit, explore boldly and open up a new world. We firmly believe that even the most imperfect innovation is a hundred times greater than the most comprehensive innovation!