And yes, I agree there's a lot of little ego satisfaction in being able to say, "Hey, I was the first one to discover that." But this is not a self-aggrandizing enterprise, because in this type of discovery research, if you don't feel like a complete idiot most of the time, you're just not sciencing hard enough.
Y sí, estoy de acuerdo, hay mucha satisfacción del ego en poder decir: "Oye, fui el primero en descubrir eso".