The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
Throwing more science at things isn't always the answer.
Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.
I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.