Discovery, Joy of
True discovery compels joyful, bold proclamation despite opposition and risk.
When Archimedes by accident discovered the method by which he might test the specific gravity of the royal crown of Hiero, it sent him out into the street like a madman, crying, "Eureka, Eureka!" When the great truth of the world's movement dawned upon the mind of Galileo, it would not lie silent, though its expression should shake hoary institutions and thrones, and bring down upon his devoted head the anathemas of the Church; and, in the very moment of enforced abjuration compelled him to cry out, "But it does move."