>We talk of “making discoveries” as if forming them out of clay. As if we craft discoveries from the malleable world with our own two hands I don't get this op

>We talk of “making discoveries” as if forming them out of clay. As if we craft discoveries from the malleable world with our own two hands I don't get this opening. Do we? Isn't this more like "invention"? My understanding of the word "discovery" (today) is exactly as what "the 18th-century lexicographer Samuel Johnson" defined in his dictionary, (cited in this article), “the act of finding any thing hidden,” or else, “the act of revealing or disclosing any secret.”