The Creative Process
Introducing an issue on innovation in science. The argument: Although science and art are social phenomena, an innovation in either field occurs only when a single mind perceives in disorder a deep new unity...
Features
Innovation in Mathematics
The first of four articles on innovation in four central fields. The mathematician seeks a new logical relationship, a new proof of an old relationship, or a new synthesis of many relationships...
Innovation in Physics
Faced with the facts of physical observation and experiment, the theoretical physicist applies the abstract relationships of mathematics to connect these facts and predict new facts
Innovation in Biology
The biologist seeks to explain life in terms of the physical sciences, but the explanation will require physical sciences adequate to cope with the unique behavior of living systems
Innovation in Technology
It is through technological innovations that science is brought to bear upon man's material existence. The difference between creative science and creative technology is chiefly one of motive...
The Physiology of Imagination
What activity of the brain underlies the creative process? The evidence indicates that electrical waves, traveling on multilane pathways among the 10 billion cells of the cortex, correspond to the experience of mind...
The Psychology of Imagination
Creativity has recently become the subject of formal study by psychologists. An account of one such study, which set out to ascertain the characteristics of creative individuals
The Encouragement of Science
What can be done to promote innovation? Money is not enough. Science is most likely to flourish in a society which not only educates its members but also gives free rein to the curiosity of the individual...
Departments
50 and 100 Years Ago: September 1958
Science and the Citizen: September 1958
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, September 1958
- Recommended
Books
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Mathematical Games
- Amateur Scientist
The Amateur Scientist
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