Genius Is One Percent Inspiration And Ninety-Nine

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Thomas Edison once said,”Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” It obviously puts hard work into a very important place. But what we should also see in this quotation is that hard work is not everything. I definitely disagree as some people say “luck has nothing to do with success”. In my opinion, to achieve success, not only should we have the ability to work hard, we should also need a little bit of luck as well, for luck often gives way to inpiration and opportunity. As David Huber, the Nobel Medical Prize winner visited my country, he gave a speech on his research life, during which he mentioned that “Scientists need wisdom, luck and courage”. His own experience is the best example to show us luck does have something to do with success, and yet it is an indispensible factor. When Huber was young, what he was interested was not anything related to school, but dynamite. As he grew older, when he was actually faced with the problem of future career, he hesitated. Everyone around him advised him to choose subjects like math or physics, but deep down, he knew that they were not his choice. Instead, he decided to try one that few people chose—medical. With the simple biological knowledge learned from high school, he steped into this brand new field. In the beginning, just like any other students in his college, he studied as asked to. He didn’t have any idea what he would be doing in the future even though already in this field. In one occasion, he got to know about a new branch of medical—something to do with the nervous system. He knew that he would get less experience than any other branches if he chose this one. He did, but he still made a decision that seemed risky to others. He chose this specific course as his research study as well as his career. And the fact is, he did pretty well in it. Moreover, as he mentioned

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