To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
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Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.
We especially need imagination in science.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
What intrigues basic scientists like me is that anytime we do a series of experiments, there are going to be three or four new questions that come up when you think you've answered one.
Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.
The fundamental essence of science, which I think we've lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.
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