1900, the famous Professor Planck and his son were walking in their garden. He looked depressed and said to his son with regret, "I'm very sorry, son." I made a discovery today. " It is as important as Newton's discovery. "He put forward the hypothesis of quantum mechanics and Planck formula. His depressed discovery destroyed Newton's perfect theory, which he always admired and sincerely believed was authoritative. He finally announced the cancellation of his hypothesis. Human beings should have benefited from authority, but unexpectedly suffered from authority, which made the theory of physics stagnate for decades.
25-year-old Einstein dared to break through the sacred authority circle, boldly broke through, appreciated Planck's hypothesis and extended it in depth, put forward the theory of light quantum, and laid the foundation of quantum mechanics. Later, he was determined to destroy Newton's absolute view of time and space, created the theory of relativity that shocked the world, and became famous and became a greater new authority.
Qi Baishi's five styles of easy painting for the elderly
Qi Baishi, a famous painter in China, won the World Peace Prize. However, in the face of his success, he is not satisfied, but constantly absorbs the strengths of painters of past dynasties and constantly improves the style of his works. His paintings after 60 are obviously different from those before 60. After 70 years old, his painting style changed again. After 80, his painting style changed again. Qi Baishi had five simple painting styles in his life. It is precisely because the old man Baishi can still change and innovate nonstop after his success that his works in his later years are more perfect and mature than his early works, and he has also formed his own unique genre and style.
He warned his disciples that "those who learn from me will live like me and die". He believes that painters should "go their own way, and I have my own way". In other words, when learning from others' strengths, we should not copy them, but use them creatively and develop constantly, so as to give art fresh vitality.
Innovation brings people close to the truth (unveiling the layers of celestial bodies)
For a long time, the geocentric theory of Ptolemy, an ancient Greek astronomer, has dominated people's thoughts. Ptolemy believed that the earth was motionless at the center, and the sun, moon, planets and stars all revolved around the earth. Copernicus overthrew Ptolemy's theory about the movement of celestial bodies and clarified Heliocentrism: The sun is the center of the universe, and the earth revolves around the sun. Then, Bruno accepted and developed Copernicus' Heliocentrism, who thought that the universe was infinite and the solar system was just a celestial body system in the infinite universe. Galileo observed the celestial bodies through a telescope and found that the surface of the moon is uneven. Jupiter has four satellites, the sun has sunspots, the Milky Way is composed of countless stars, and both Venus and Mercury have profit and loss phenomena. Soon, Kepler analyzed Tycho. According to Bula's observation data, it is found that the planet runs in an elliptical orbit, and three laws of planetary motion are put forward, which laid the foundation for Newton to discover the law of gravity ... Therefore, it can be said that science is a process of continuous discovery and truth is a process of continuous innovation.
Conservatism is the biggest obstacle to innovation (Newton tends to be conservative in his later years)
Newton is one of the greatest scientists in the world, and his contribution to science is unprecedented. He made many important discoveries in his life: three laws of mechanics, gravitation, cooling law and calculus. But in his later years, his research fell into the category of Aristotle and Plato. He spent ten years studying the existence of God, but naturally he found nothing. From this point of view, even great scholars can't achieve anything once they fall into the old category.
Innovation is the expression of personality (Zheng Banqiao's originality is one).
Zheng Banqiao was a painter and writer, and one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou" in Qing Dynasty. He loved calligraphy since childhood and was determined to master the essence of ancient and modern calligraphy. He studied hard and practiced hard, but at first he just copied famous copybooks repeatedly and made little progress, which was deeply distressing. It is said that once I was fascinated by practicing calligraphy, I actually painted on my wife's back. When his wife asked him what he was doing, he said he was practicing calligraphy. His wife scolded lightly: "everyone has a body, and your body is your body;" The human body is the human body. What do you always wrap on others? " Hearing this, Zheng Banqiao suddenly realized that calligraphy is original and self-contained. It always plagiarizes other people's inscriptions. How can we do that? Since then, he has worked hard to innovate, explored the skills of painting bamboo in calligraphy art, and finally formed his own unique style-Banqiao style.
Innovation pushes history forward (Shang Yang Reform)
Shang Yang's political reform is a series of reform measures carried out by Shang Yang, a famous politician in the Warring States Period, to safeguard the interests of the rulers of Qin State.
In 36 1 year BC, Qin Xiaogong ascended the throne. The young monarch was determined to change the backward state of Qin, so he issued a decree to seek talents through reform. At this time, Shang Yang came to Qin from Wei.
When Shang Yang arrived in the State of Qin, he publicized "the art of strengthening the country" and was determined to help Qin Xiaogong carry out social reform. Therefore, he won the trust and appointed him as Chang.
In 359 BC and 350 BC, Qin promulgated two new laws under the auspices of Shang Yang. After Shang Yang's political reform, Qin took on a new look. Qin has changed from a backward country to a powerful one, with a strong military and the fear of governors. There has been a situation of "the family gives enough people, the people are brave in public war, the private fights are afraid, and the towns and cities are governed together".
It is precisely because of its role that the history of the Qin Dynasty has become so brilliant.
In a war, the crew of an anchored destroyer suddenly found a floating mine drifting towards them, too close to untie the cable to escape. What shall we do? The crew used their quick wits to run to the deck, picked up the hose and washed away the mine with water.
According to the popular saying, the crew is really "creative". To put it bluntly, it is innovation: who would have thought of dealing with mines in this way before?
But in some people's eyes, innovation is a mysterious thing, and the inspiration for innovation seems to be extremely accidental, just like winning the lottery. I thought it wasn't. If you pay attention to everything around you in a scientific way of thinking, you will find that inspiration is almost everywhere.
Early pens and ink were separated, so when people wanted to write, they dipped their pens into the ink. This situation lasted for a long time, but no one cared. It was not until later that a clever man in the pen-making industry discovered this problem and came up with the idea of combining the two. So the fountain pen was born. Before that, more than 10 million people used pens, but all of them had no chance with this invention. Why? Because they lack attention and scrutiny to life, that is, careful observation. Careful observation is an essential quality when collecting innovative materials. People with this quality will have more innovative opportunities than others. And turning a blind eye to the things around us is just a common problem of ordinary people, so the god of innovation will pass by.
Getting rid of mindset is another feature of innovative spirit. Thinking set is sometimes useful, which makes us more skilled in solving some common problems, but it is harmful to innovation. A mother asked the teacher, "How can I make my child eat eggs for breakfast?" The teacher asked, "Why should children eat eggs?" "To supplement protein." Mom replied. "Then why don't you use another method?" The teacher said. So, the next morning, the mother watched the child eat his favorite beef biscuits with satisfaction. Here, my mother has a mindset, that is, to supplement protein, she must eat eggs. It can be seen that fixed thinking often makes our thinking narrow and even makes us unable to find some simple things.
Innovative spirit also requires people not to judge easily. "Judgment" refers to logical reasoning with existing knowledge. But new things may not adapt to the original knowledge system. As a result, people gave up exploration and lost the opportunity to innovate. "Relativity" is undoubtedly one of the greatest scientific achievements of mankind in the 20th century. However, if Einstein applied the classical physics knowledge he had learned to reasoning and judgment and gave up after reaching a fallacy, then even if he had a genius, he just circled in the circle of classical physics, and it was difficult to achieve future glory. American scholar Michael? Leibov once said: "Almost every invention is the result of a strong-willed person who firmly believes in his imagination." Although some words are absolute, they are not unreasonable.
Looking back on human history is actually a history of constant innovation and progress. With the acceleration of social progress, human innovation activities are also accelerating, and people's innovative spirit is becoming more and more important. When talking about talents, Ning Chaodi, president of Kelihua Software Group, believes that the information age is an era with extremely weak materiality. The leap of consciousness will bring a qualitative breakthrough to the development of enterprises. Therefore, a person's creativity is more important than knowledge. As a cross-century generation, how can we not pay attention to cultivating our own innovative spirit if we want to gain a foothold in the fierce competition in the new century?