People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

我不完美，但我正在尽力。

Every discovery builds on the work of those who came before us.

晏子春秋

We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.