Is the beginner more likely to make important discoveries in any fieldof inquiry, as the speaker contends, rather than expert? Although Iagree that beginner is likely to shake off the shackles of tradition,and possesses rich imagination, however, in most cases it is notsufficient to draw the conclusion that beginner is more likely to makeimportant discoveries. In the field of inquiry, both innovation anddiscovery call for a balance in which there are both beginner andexpert.
Imagination is more important than Knowledge, as Einstein once said. Onthe one hand, this remark emphasized the importance of imagination inacademic research. With this power, beginner is able to surpasspredecessors in a surprising but impressive way. This can be confirmedby De Broglie, the Nobel laureate, as a new comer of area of physicswhich leaded by great scholars like Einstein at that time, developedhis theory of electron waves with bold speculation and creativeimagination, by which laid a master status in modern physics. However,on the other hand, it is not always the case. That statement iscertainly true to Einstein because he's got more than enough knowledgein his field and his creativity spurred from his imagination. Thus,Knowledge must be the fundamental of creativity, while imagination plugit wings.
Expert, with rich knowledge and experience, is skillful incomprehensive results of predecessors and insightful enough to makefewer detours. With understand and comprehend of successful work ofothers, expert is able to learn what contributions remain to be made.Thus it is easier to find out the right direction. On the contrary,beginner will spend more time on trial-and-fail to find the rightdirection and the correct method to achieve the goal. So a better wayto make significant discoveries is to combine the imagination ofbeginner and the wisdom of expert. Thus, imagination supported byknowledge can fly higher, knowledge inspired by imagination will bemore powerful.
Finally, without beginner, we will lose revitalization of ourdevelopment. Without expert, our research will lose a powerful guideand we will be likely to make mistakes that have been made hundredstimes before. Thus, while the speaker emphasize the importance ofbeginner, the leading and guiding contributions of expert cannot justbe overlooks, in fact, expert is equally important, or in some extent,more cardinal.

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