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-[[There]] is [[nothing]] [[new]] [[under]] the [[sun]].+[[There]] is [[nothing]] [[new]] [[under]] the [[sun]] is a dictum that means that there is nothing truly novel in [[existence]]. Every new idea has some sort of [[precedent]] or [[echo]] from the [[past]].
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-# There is nothing truly novel in existence. Every new idea has some sort of precedent or echo from the past.+
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-[[Charles Sedgwick Minot]]+
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-[[The Work of the Naturalist in the World]],” in [[Popular Science Monthly]] July 1893+
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-The attitude of literary men is indeed sad. Lowell opens his essay on Chaucer with the question, " Can any one hope to say anything, not new, but even fresh, on a topic so well worn ? " and answers, " It may well be doubted." This feeling that any- thing new is impossible is not modern. La Bruyere begins his Caracteres with " Tout est dit, et Ton vient trop tard depuis plus de sept niille ans qu'il y a des hommes, et qui pensent " ; and two hundred years later Joubert repeats : " Toutes les choses, qui sont aise*es a bien dire, ont 6t6 parfaitement dites ; le reste est notre affaire ou notre tache : tache penible."+
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-Another trait which is very striking shows itself, not in all naturalists, but in nearly all great naturalists the trait of humil- ity not the humility of self-depreciation, but the humility which is the privilege of those who pursue a high ideal. The great ' naturalist cares for the absolulely true, and, though he may know that he is abler than other men, he feels only a minor interest in personal comparison, and measures himself by a different stand- ard. A man who estimates himself by an ideal which he never fully attains, learns humility in its noblest form. Von Baer, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Helmholtz, and Darwin were men of that rank ; and doubtless the very greatness mentally of such men enables them to estimate justly the proportion their personal contributions bear to the whole of science.+
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-The sad side of an investigator's life is its inevitable loneliness, so far as his special work is concerned. It rarely happens that one of us finds a colleague at hand able to appreciate his special work ; but at these meetings we each find appreciation and stimu- lus, and we return refreshed to our isolated labors, return stronger to stand by ourselves, as men must who wish to share in the seri- ous work of the world.+
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-The solidarity of our profession, the mutual loyalty not only of naturalists but of all scientific men, is very great and of im- mense value. It is perhaps the most important function of this+
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==Etymology== ==Etymology==

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There is nothing new under the sun is a dictum that means that there is nothing truly novel in existence. Every new idea has some sort of precedent or echo from the past.

Etymology

From Latin nihil sub sole novum, from the Hebrew, from Ecclesiastes 1:9.




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