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12. We can both be right, you know.

Reply to DavidDvorkin (Reply #11)

Sat Sep 22, 2012, 11:43 AM

Sep 2012

It takes both: deeper understanding AND the ability to imagine things that aren't yet understood.

There are scientists, true, who only ask questions and find answers.

And then there are inventors and innovators (who need also to be scientist of a sort) who imagine what others think impossible.

I call these impossible or improbable things "magic"

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Was Newton a scientist or a sorcerer? [View all] xchrom Sep 2012 OP

To be brilliant, you have to believe it magic. NYC_SKP Sep 2012 #1

Disagree TlalocW Sep 2012 #2

Not magic, literally, but the magic of the natural world. NYC_SKP Sep 2012 #8

No, they extended conventional science DavidDvorkin Sep 2012 #9

To be brilliant, you have to believe it magic. NYC_SKP Sep 2012 #10

Nope. DavidDvorkin Sep 2012 #11

We can both be right, you know. NYC_SKP Sep 2012 #12

This will make you smile. NYC_SKP Sep 2012 #13

And the point of this is? HopelesslyLiberal Sep 2012 #3

This superficial article.... RobertoRoberti Sep 2012 #4

Yes. nt bemildred Sep 2012 #5

You mean people in the 17th century didn't fit into 21st-century pigeonholes? Amazing. (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2012 #6

"Photograph"? LOL! Aldo Leopold Sep 2012 #7

Yup. Igel Sep 2012 #14