What is it that confers the noblest delight?
What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him?
Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere.

To give birth to an idea--to discover a great thought--an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain--plow had gone over before.

To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find the way to make the lightnings carry your messages.

To be the first--that is the idea.

To do something, say something, see something, before any body else--these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.