GRE写作题库之GRE作文题目：

84"In any field of endeavor, it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first　being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field."

GRE写作精讲之提纲解析：

84 同意新的成就建立在以往成就基础上

1、自然科学领域 100

standing on Copernicus’ shoulder, Galileo, a scientist who inducted experimental method into

scientific researches, invented telescope, which made people learn that the earth is not the center of

universe. After many years, standing on Galileo’s shoulder, Newton founded the Law of Gravity, which

explains the regularity of planets’ motions.

Newton claimed (and I paraphrase) that: “If I have seen farther than others, that is because I stand

on the shoulders of a giant.” The ’giant’ he referred to is the very knowledge in the field of physics

accumulated by prior physicists, which helped him to achieve his systematic laws of physics.

2、在社会科学领域

Aristotle, a famous philosopher, was believed by public people to know everything at him time. But

where the wisdom of Aristotle came from? One can readily find that Aristotle was a student of Plato

and many achievements of Aristotle had direct and indirect relationship with Plato. And what is more

is that the knowledge and wisdom of Plato came from Socrates, a famous Greek thinker, who was the

teacher of Plato.

3、在前人成果基础上用于质疑和创新，才能作出新的贡献，仅仅受到别人的影响是不够的 it is dangerous to get

oneself excessively influenced by past achievements, unable to think on one’s own

The term critical thinking indicates a scientific studying method of being suspicious to given

information, analyzing conflict viewpoints and getting an indifferent reasonable conclusion. Actually,

the often-told story of Galileo’ experiment against the paradigm of Aristotle’ principle is right in point.