Those rules of old, discovered, not devised,
are nature still, but nature methodised.
-- Alexander Pope, “Essay on Criticism”
Re coming up with new medications by systematically sifting through material found in dirt and so forth, then assembling subparts using a toolkit of techniques:
These molecules had not been discovered so much as imagined into existence.
-- Dr. Dhruv Khullar, in 9 Sept 2025 The New Yorker
For our essays on the theme Discovery versus Invention, see:
https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/search/label/discovery
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