Open AccessA Well-Hung Horse: Sired by Knowledge and Imagination
Author(s) -
Joseph L. Goldstein
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2015.08.039
Subject(s) - roulette , biology , epistemology , process (computing) , cognitive science , aesthetics , psychology , computer science , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , operating system
For more than a century, historians of science have been spinning a philosophical roulette wheel, pondering which is more important in the creative process: imagination or knowledge. The most original scientists (and artists) in our day discover newness by blending existing knowledge with imaginative thinking.
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