"In any field of inquiry, the beginner is more likely than the expert to make important discoveries."

 The speaker asserts that the beginner is more likely to have important discoveries than experts in the field of inquiry. I strongly disagree with this point of view. Actually, either beginners or experts can have important discoveries. The most important factor for key discoveries is not depend on their experience, but their creativity and perseverance. My point of view will be discussed as below.

 First, the beginners always play an important role of discoveries. As a beginner, they are just entering an area, which means that he could be less constrained by old thinking models, and easily have a special angle to look at the world. And the beginner always at younger age, they are full of energies which facilitate them to do important discoveries. Steve Jobs, who found commercial opportunity of personal computer, established  the Apple company at very young age. His discovery opened a new era. Since then, human beings entered into the personal computers period. his discovery has changed our lifestyle. Take Bill Gate as another example, he discovered the integration of hardware and software will greatly improve the effectiveness of using computer, then he established Microsoft company and achieved great success. At the time the world was dominated by mainframe computers made by companies like IBM. Yet because Bill Gate was a novice, and hasn’t become immersed in mainframe computers, that made it possible for him to revolutionize computing. Beginners, who always have passions and new perspectives can always bring the world surprise. Especially in the computer era, beginners brought miracles to us is not a new story.

As to experts, they have affluent experiences and are more rational. They can make more mature judgments when some mistakes are emerged. And due to the long time at a certain field, they have more background knowledge over beginners. Take Karl Marx as an example, in order to write The Capital, he insisted on learning and researching in library for many years. And finally found the basic law of capitalism. Similarly, Darwin spent 20 years and finally finished the “Origin and the species”. From these two examples we can see that discover is always time-consuming and not accidental. Too many examples can illustrate this point of view. When somes expert won the Nobel Prize, he or she generally has been at the area for many years. And most of the researches need very long-term concentration.

Actually, in today’s ever-changing world, discoveries depend on more groups of people than single person. So new discoveries need the cooperation of the beginners and the experts. It is a best and effective way to find a new thing.

From what has been discussed, we can draw a safe conclusion that beginners and expert both have their advantages,if they have enough innovative abilities, they can both attribute to the important discoveries. Moreover, the most important factor for a discoverer is not the time they have spent in that field. It is about their sensitive to new emerging things, their ability of critical thinking, and their perseverance.