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Discovery and Invention

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Discovery finds something that already existed; invention combines existing things into something new. Both drive change from inside a culture.

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Penicillin was discovered — the mold already existed; the printing press was invented — screw press, ink, and movable type combined into something new.

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Both are social events — what a society does with the new thing is the change.