To this I do not agree. Science is not engineering. Alfred Wegener needed
to be very free minded and creative to formulate his ideas, as much as
Charles Darwin needed to be 50 years earlier. And this one person Charles
Darwin, who painfully struggled on his ideas all of his his life, is now
the predominant source of any thinking that geological, biological and
economical sciences feel based upon.
Creative thinking is not in opposite to scientific reasoning.
People like Alfred Wegener, Charles Darwin, or as well Albert Einstein had
the ability to alloy their scientific understanding with their deeper
understanding, that visually we (ordinary people) would not have been able
to grasp, but they made it visible to the world, like artists do.
> And I love the term "creative interpretations of nature" . That might be a
> good thing for artists like Monet, but in science it pretty much equates
> to drivel.
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