Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.
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Science always uses metaphor.
Science is all metaphor.
We especially need imagination in science.
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.